Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Seedhouse Awesomeness!

About 2 or 3 days after I built my greenhouse I pretty much started my seeds over from scratch. I only had a couple of trays started anyway, and most of them were killed when my son decided to put them ON the furnace. So I just started over :)
I took a short 'organic gardening' class the year before last, and the instructor there told me that I should use the styrafoam egg crates instead of the biodegradable. So I started saving ALL of my egg crates to start seeds in. I rarely buy the styrafoam ones, because I buy my eggs in the large 5 1/2 dozen boxes, or occasionally the mediums will be cheaper, but still in the biodegradable cartons. So the majority of what I had saved was the biodegradable ones. Which actually wound up being a good thing, and here's why- I got the majority of my seeds planted before we left on vacation. The day we left, I put some extra water on all of them, to make sure they didn't dry out while we were gone. The plan was to be gone for a week, so I was worried.
We were only gone for 5 days and when we came back there was a HORRIBLE smell in the greenhouse. Turned out the styrafoam cartons, which don't have any kind of drainage, were just holding the water, and the seeds weren't soaking ANY up, so they, and the soil, just rotted. Luckily I only had like 4 foam crates, so I didn't lose too terribly much, and now I've learned my lesson- stick with the biodegradable ones. They are like a thick paper, so they absorb excess water and allow for drainage.

So, aside from the death of those few plants, I'm absolutely loving my green house and the awesomeness that I'm growing within!! Here's some progress pics!
Flowers
 Pumpkins
 Green beans and Scarlet Runner Beans
Peas

 Spinach
 Beets
 Broccoli
 Cotton
 Bellpeppers
 2 trays of carrots
 Tomatoes
 Celery
Cabbage
 Just Scarlet Runner Beans
 More flowers
 Leeks
 Bellpeppers
 more bellpeppers
 Brussel Sprouts
 Corn
 Potato Barrels


 Here are my shelves :)
 And my potato barrels (garbage cans LOL)

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