Archive for the ‘Greenhouse’ category

The Transplants Move Outside

May 26th, 2009

transplants

I didn’t really want to post this picture because many of the plants don’t look overly healthy, but for the record… The weather kept dropping to freezing temperatures around 5 to 7 below and I did not have a heated outside structure to put my plants into.  This became a problem about two or three weeks ago when I ran out of grow light space and everything started to get really leggy.  I transplanted everything into bigger pots and had to keep the house lights on to try and give everything a little bit of light.  On the weekend however I managed to move a lot of the plants outside to get real sunlight.  Now hopefully they will start to toughen up a little in preparation for their next move into the garden.

Snow, Really

May 19th, 2009

hot house snow

The hot house was setup just in time to watch a snow storm through it.  So far the poly has survived some incredible wind storms with only a little extra stretching.  Unfortunately, the weather is still cold and freezing at night so I have not put any plants in the hot house yet.  Hopefully the nights will warm up a little so I don’t have to transfer plants back and forth between inside and out.

Hot House Construction

April 21st, 2009

hot house building I

hot house building II

The wind finally stopped blowing enough for us to setup the poly over the garage package frame.  Construction continues and hopefully soon it will be fully enclosed.  Some of the started plants are in desperate need for more space.  Although the forecast is for a low -10 C later this week so maybe it is a good thing nothing is outside yet.