Chickenpox on the Greenhouse, and Garden Report

 The cilantro and dill finally sprouted.

 First caterpillar I've seen on the parsley since the beginning of the summer.

 I'm thinking about transplanting the parsley to pots to put in the greenhouse.

 I've been painting the greenhouse. This spring, we finished putting the siding on but then it got too hot to be in the sun caulking and painting. I started on Sunday, taping and caulking nail holes, and painted the west side of the greenhouse. Then today I "finished" painting the other two sides. Then I realized I had completely forgotten the top part on the north side also needs painted. So I climbed up there and caulked everything and will probably finish painting tomorrow or Thursday.

 See all the caulking spots? It looks like the greenhouse has chickenpox!

My next "to do" items are:
- paint the garage trim
- recaulk the windows on the house. The caulking we used the first time dried and cracked really bad and isn't doing a good job of sealing anymore.

It finally cooled off, and we got enough rain, that the lettuce mix sprouted. We'll see if the birds keep out of it!

Also, I stopped at Lowe's today to get another paint tray liner, and they had garlic and onions for fall plantings, so I bought a bag of yellow onions and a bag of garlic, and seed packets of parsley and basil to start in the greenhouse. They had some stray tomato plants, and I'd like to pick a couple up to put in the greenhouse to test it out this winter, but they were looking a little scraggly and yellow, so I'll keep looking.

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Garden photos

I was out in the garden this evening and happened to have my camera phone, so I snapped a few photos to share!





On the left side of this bed are leeks. Toward the center back is an artichoke. There are four other artichoke plants but they are much smaller.


These are onions. On the right is some volunteer spinach that came up from last year.


Peas!


The back side of the greenhouse, where the native flowers will go. You can see where I sprayed roundup last year (I know, roundup is the devil, and I typically wouldn't use it but I also don't want weeds growing up into my greenhouse).


There are several strawberry blossoms.


The inside of the greenhouse. These are the tool holders I installed.


Spinach



Another view inside the greenhouse. I don't have the 1x12s for the shelves yet, but the brackets are installed. The vent openers are working!

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Greenhouse work

Yesterday I installed the brackets for my shelves on the south wall of the greenhouse, as well as some organizational items. The shelves will be white painted 1x12.
For the long handled tools, I installed a 17" spring bar with clips , for short handled tools I installed a bar with hooks.

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Garden Report 03.20.2011

I planted spring veggies today:
Tonda di Parigi Carrots
Tall Telephone Garden Peas
Golden Beets
Chinese Red Meat Radish
Hollow Crown Parsnip
Rocky Top Lettuce Mix
Chantenay Red Core Carrot
Chioggia Beet
Giant Noble Spinach
White Vienna Kohlrabi
European Mesclun Salad Mix


What I need to do this week: Plant onions.

The tomato seeds I planted are all looking good. I need to replant some of the peppers and all the eggplant because the germination rate is not so good.
I am also going to start the following inside:
Batavian Full Heart Endive
Slo Bolt Cilantro
Red Mexican Hat Wildflower
Yellow Prairie Coneflower

I also should probably take some soil samples over to the MO Extension office soon to see what the soil deficiencies are.

The greenhouse needs vent openers on the other three windows. For this summer, I don't think I'll put the insulation or (heat sink) rain barrels in. The next thing to work on is getting brackets and shelves in on the south side of the greenhouse, some hooks for tools, and a planting bench. I've also been on the lookout for some kind of large urn/pot to put the bamboo stakes in during the winter.

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