A Day in the Greenhouse

I spent hours today inside the greenhouse planting many of the vegetables and some of the flowers that will hopefully grow for me this season. I started by getting my seeds arranged and then creating my labels.

Getting ready for planting

More packets ready

It was very relaxing letting my mind wander as I sat and filled my trays and containers with soil, dropped in the tiny seeds, and covered them with soil.

Once this was done, I got two of my potato pots ready. This is something new I am trying this year. The package included a plastic piece that needed to be inserted at the top of the pot to hold it in the shape. One comment about these: I found that on one of the pots they had sewed the seam down making it impossible to go all the way around, and the other was larger than the pot itself leaving a small portion of the plastic exposed. Further the directions indicate how much soil to put in, and not having a ruler at hand it would have been nice for the maker to have included a mark to the first level of dirt required. Be that as it may, I guesstimated the amount of soil, and got my starter potatoes in.

When I was done with these I watered all the containers.

One side planted

The other side is planted too

The door is ready to close

You may have noticed the large blue barrel at the back end of the greenhouse. This is filled with water and will warm up during the day, and will act as radiant heat keeping the greenhouse warmer at night.  The potato pots are the two green cylinders on the ground at the left.

Check back later as I mark the progress of what I have planted! The earliest to sprout is 7 days!