Showing posts with label hoophouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hoophouse. Show all posts

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Garden update -April


 Th hoop house is almost ready! Those days are so windy, it is very hard to work.










I need to add more support to the roof, the door and ventilation.



 Th hoop house is 11 feet wide, and I made the beds wide too.












It was 20 C today inside and only 12 C outside and very windy.

This is my winter sowed spinach, some root were so long!
 
 I planted them with kitchen-window-parley inside.




















 Outside in the garden some greens are good, some not. This is boc choi, very nice one.
:)
 Transplanted radishes do not forming bulbs, only red root.
:(
 Napa cabbage grows twice bigger in one week!
:)
Green bed - some of them are bolting. :(




Saturday, March 30, 2013

Spring is fast, working hard

About 50 outside! I am so excited to be outside!
This is my 2 days report.

Planted all the carrots (paper towel mats, 3 days, almost all seed germinated). You can see some paper towel mats are covered with compost and some are not.

also planted a lot of radishes, regular and Asian variety. My overwintered tatsoi is ready to bolt, I am harvesting it now.



 My friend is adding a room to the house, she has a lot of dirt after digging, so we brought some bins of soil in a future greenhouse. I will mi it with my compost. I never had enough compost!

Frame of the hoop house is almost done, but I am too busy with other stuff like plating and cleaning than building now.
 A llok at the garden - green in a cold frame.
 First peas - planted on March 10.
 Onion Stuttgarter planted today.
 Strawberries are alive - so nice!. I transplanted them in the middle of the winter.
 Some brassicas are ready to transplant.
 All of them in place.
 Look at those roots!
Napa cabbage Munuet
 4 of them are very good, I hope the weather will be not cold for them.









Kohlrabi



 Kale blue dwarf












Today was a big clean-up day.
This was a End of the Garden Mess - actually raspberry patch. A lot of fall leaves were collected there. And rocks, and twigs....

I cleaned everything, checked all the raspberry (I have 2nd year transplants), pruned them, added compost.



Is it the same place?
I also added trellis support.
 And those are new guys in the garden!
Gooseberry
 Raspberry jewel
 Black currants behind the raspberries.


Saturday, March 23, 2013

Greenhouse Day 1

Nice day, 40F!

Working on a hoop house.
I was reading so much about building hoophouses, I am getting crazy about it!
I am on a tight budget, so I am trying to spend less.


Some of the materials - 3/4 in PVC pipes, rebar,  1x3x8 lumber, regular (not greenhouse) plastic.

I am so excited so work!