New Greenhouse
We bought a new portable greenhouse on ebay - to replace our Redneck greenhouse that was falling apart. I spent $110.99 on it - including shipping and handling. We couldn't build a 10 x 20 greenhouse for that price, so we're pleased. George built the beds along one side and across the back of the green house, to grow plants in year around. We have black shelving and black containers to hold water - for passive solar heat during the winter. We should get the cover put on, soon.
The container with cucumber plants is a under the bed shoe storage box. The beds are 3' wide and 20' long (10' across the back) The beds took 2 yards of mushroom compost and about 1/2 yard of walkway bark.
The light colored wood chips were left over from our chicken coop.
In the front bed, George has finished installing the automatic PVC watering system he made from scratch. We got the idea from LDSPrepper on Youtube.
Carrots & beets are in the front bed, broccoli, cabbage and spinach (bolting) in the second bed & herbs are growing in the terraced hillside by our compost tea barrel. You can see the poly tunnels George made so we could get an early start on our veggie garden.
We weeded out between the rows & filled up one of our compost bins this week. There are still some areas left to week. I love the Japanese weeding tools I bought at Ginger Street in Rainier! It makes weeding a snap!
Strawberries in the barrel are doing great! The thimble berries need to be taken out of the hillside, so we can terrace it, too.
Strawberry rows around the back yard are producing well! We have a lot of happy little strawberries & a few big ones, too!
Cement blocks we didn't need for the greenhouse.
Herb Garden & a better view of the 3 section compost bin. (The first section has volunteer red potatoes growing in it, so we put our chairs in front - so Buddy won't traipse through it.
Poly tunnel is over the green pepper plants.
You can see George working on his automatic watering system.
There is George working.. you can see where I quit weeding - where the bark ends. I'll finish the weeding over the next week & we'll put in more bark then. As you can see - the grass and buttercups really filled in during the winter. The Japanese hand hoe is one of the best tools for getting under the roots and makes weeding a cinch!
This bed is about 10 x 8. It has onions and potatoes in it. the poly tunnel gave these plants quite a head start. (Look at the weeding around the bed I still need to do. YIKES!
Looking at the garden from Bob's house.
Looking at the greenhouse from Bob's place.
We took off some of the vinyl covering the raised beds, to install the watering system.
The greenhouse frame (closer view.)
My sweet George finishing up the first section of the watering system. (There will be 4 sections of 4 beds each that will alternate running, so they will have good water pressure.)
Riley in the right hand corner by the greenhouse.
The watering can in front is for perspective.
