Temperatures were forecast (at one point) to be in the teens overnight this week. They have since been revised upwards a bit, but I got my greenhouse heater in place. In this case I am using a string of 100 red, green and white incandescent christmas tree lights. The lights should add a few degrees [...]
Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse’
12 Sep
Hoop house for fall and winter
This year we’re going to try a different approach to the greenhouse idea. I added a PVC hoop house to this 4 x 8 foot bed last weekend. Well, everything except the plastic cover…it’s too soon for that. I bought 6 pieces of half-inch PVC pipe and 2 pieces of the size that was big [...]
25 Mar
Hardening off the broccoli
Blurry camera phone picture: Here are 63 broccoli young’ins, inside the plastic greenhouse shelf thing that R. gave me for Christmas in late 2008. Unfortunately the cloth used in the zipper has badly deteriorated after only six months outside last summer, so this will probably be the last year I can use this as a [...]
22 Jan
Kale, Kale, Kale
I planted the Kale seeds I received in the mail from Robin shortly after Christmas. I had a heck of a time with poor germination, but I finally have a tray of them rising up! Thank you again Robin! I am very much looking forward to trying these. I’m going to give them a [...]
7 Jan
Lettuce in January!
I think I’ll get to eat some of this lettuce this month. I started this bunch under lights indoors and then set it out in my attached greenhouse. There was an incident that ruined half the lettuce in the container (melting ice, water, plastic roof, heavy, spill, mess) but it has been bouncing back. Here [...]
30 Dec
Zone 5 Greenhouse New Year update
The radish seeds I sowed in the greenhouse in a pot on December 5th started to show their heads last week. Yesterday many had come up! There were several consecutive nights of 0 degree weather outside (in degrees fahrenheit, 32 below freezing), and the greenhouse got as cold as 19 by morning once, but the radishes [...]
27 Nov
Greenhouse at night
I don’t know if you can see it in the picture above, but the greenhouse might be warming up to itself a bit! I have had my little greenhouse enclosed since Sunday, and after four days of nice bright sunshine warming the thing up to as high as 90 degrees, there is now a 7.4 [...]
23 Nov
Basement steps Greenhouse
This is the finished product. I capped our walk-out basement stairs with a very simple greenhouse made of scrap wood and 3 mil painting dropcloth. This should help me extend the season a bit. Just open the door from the laundry room and you’re there. This afternoon the outdoor high reached 42. The greenhouse was [...]
23 Nov
I made a little greenhouse
I made a little greenhouse of sorts today. I didn’t get it done before dark…not completely done anyway…so I didn’t take pictures yet. The lowest level of our house is a walk-out basement about half as far in the ground as a full basement. As I open the laundry-room back door and walk out the [...]
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