Serious Greenhouse Envy
I don’t like to think of myself as a jealous person, but more than my thumb turned green when I first saw my friend Robin’s new greenhouse. I wanted to shout, “Hello, Beautiful!” when I stepped inside. She’s got watermelons, passionfruit and ripe tomatoes growing within the confines of its lovely translucent walls. And she’s started trays of kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage seedlings for fall.
My birthday is coming up next Tuesday. I don’t think I’m going to find one of these puppies in my backyard. But, hey, a girl can always dream, right?
To read more about Robin’s greenhouse and her other gardening escapades, you should definitely check out her blog GardenHelp.
July 9, 2009
I plan to replace my shed with a greenhouse in the future. I have found several reasonably priced too… Woot!
July 10th, 2009 at 2:17 pmI’m with you Willi! Ripe tomatoes make every garden girl green with envy. I’m putting a greenhouse on my wish list too!
July 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pmGreat for growing tomatoes, just have to make sure you water the plants regularly and if it gets too hot (over 75F) open the roof light and door to let the plants cool a bit.
July 12th, 2009 at 8:48 amI have to agree that that is a beautiful greenhouse.
July 12th, 2009 at 4:11 pmWilli,
I know you’ll have a bigger, better, more beautiful greenhouse than mine in your future, so don’t turn too green just yet. I must admit, I have love having one. On cool days I can keep it shut up, go inside and get a little hit of warm weather in a green space. I look forward to seeing how it helps me extend my growing season this winter. I plan to keep it filled with brassicas, chard, lettuce and perhaps other experiments when the weather cools. Drop in at gardenhelp.org to follow my successes as well as frustrations.
Oh, and you’ll definitely be ahead of me since you keep bees already. My biggest challenge is to get the good bugs in and keep the bad bugs out! We’re considering adding bee houses to our garden if we can find just the right place.
Cheers
!
July 13th, 2009 at 8:23 amMy birthday is next Thurs. Hope the birthday fairie delivers one to my house too.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:16 amOh this gets me dreaming of turning our very very old dilapitated too-small for our mini-van garage into a lovely greenhouse. Hmmmm….
July 14th, 2009 at 8:48 amIsn’t it too early to start seedlings for Kale or Broccoli for fall? I just ripped my past-flowering section of heirloom broccolini out and harvested about a cup of broccolini seeds – the ones I didn’t catch and that fell into the flower bed are now all sprouting like madness.
Reminds me that buying seeds is not always necessary if you let part of your stuff just grow and harvest its seeds
broccolini seeds, anyone?
July 14th, 2009 at 1:12 pmFYI: I just did a write up at gardenhelp.org detailing which greenhouse we added, modifications we made and where you can get your own here: http://www.gardenhelp.org/greenhouse/seattle-residential-greenhouse/
Enjoy!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:39 amThorsten, I do my seedling starts in a rotation. Those that I began several weeks ago are kept the the coolest spot in the greenhouse, and they’re doing great — no bolting so far. But, I do have another round seeding now and will probably do another as well. I’ll be moving some of the earliest seeded out into the garden soon. We have such cool nights that, so far, kale and cabbage aren’t bolting. Broccoli and cauliflower are a little more difficult to keep happy in the mid-summer, unfortunately.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am@gardenmentor Ah, I see, thanks for the tips! I know what my weekend project is going to be now
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