Updating Greenhouse Project and garden.
Greenhouse project is going great, learning a great deal on growing in a house. We have grow tents inside, but this is different. It’s a joy to open the house up first light and bask in the humid warmth. The seeing our future dinners growing is delightful.
A small dive into what we’ve been doing. I didn’t include the root crops coming in carrots, beets, onions. The underground camera kinda sucks.
Mary’s white iris. First time blooming.
Overview of the greenhouse.
Cabbage, cucumber, tomatoes.
Tomatoes different slicing types New York, Sub-Artic, Black Seaman.
Closeup
Peppers, Red, Yellow, Cubanelle, Pablano.
Outside, we have potatoes, green beans, raspberries.
Snow peas coming along. Some of the Horseradish root should be ready later for harvest. It’s in the background. Onions getting bigger.
Roma tomatoes, garlic at the top of the row, seed onions along the fence line.
The Elderberries are coming in great should have an awesome harvest.
Overall look at the Elderberry grove. It keeps getting bigger every year. For scale, Mary is in blue behind the bushes changing the critter’s water, it’s for the birds and other critters that wander through.
Strawberry beds are filling in nicely. Trying a new way to hold down the bird netting, pool noodles sliced down one side then fitted over the side of the bed with the netting in place under it.
The traditional mounds for zucchini, butternut squash, acorn squash.
The straw bale garden experiment. Everything is looking great. I purposefully planted densely to see how it could be handled. Next is seeing if they cascade like I’m expecting. There’s acorn, butternut, zucchini squashes and some lettuce in one bale.
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Right up there with Black Krim, Big Rainbow, and Japanese Trifele!
Earthboxes have been a dang near a foolproof method for growing tomatoes and peppers whenever we've employed them.
My variety number is down this year. In past years we've had as many as 50 varieties of peppers and 40 varieties of tomatoes with a total high plant count between them of around 120.
We're currently at around 35 plants between tomatoes and peppers this year.
They're just now starting to come in as we didn't get our usual early indoor start in December this year.
We love gardening!!!!!!!!!!
Our first year for borage, currants, dill, papalo, and horehound.
We've got more varieties of basil and thyme this year as well.
We adore gardening, it's the stuff of life!
Here's to your personal success in your endeavors.
Only if edible but a butternut/acorn would be interesting. For years we had a postage stamp for a yard but still was able to get out a good harvest for immediate use. Nothing for storage for the winter months. Then Mary retired and we came back up north.
Not in permanent housing currently, I truly hope I can have a good sized garden. I'm making do with clay pots and a grape crate on my porch where I have an 18" pot with sugar snap peas right outside the door and two steps further I have a grape crate with my little lettuce garden with 8 rows of greens including spinach. The rest is a lot of morning glory and sweet peas in pots that will twine up the inside of the porch, some nasturtiums for cover along the building. Nasturtiums are edible but the deer won't eat them.
But I have ten tomato plants a double row - 8' - of red potatoes and a couple dozen onions in the ground at a friend's house. He let me use a 20' strip along the edge of the back yard.
We cook a meal on Sundays together just to make sure we have one nice meal a week, though we both cook and feed ourselves well enough individually, so this will be the summer garden that is available for both of us, he has to do the watering 
I deal with the weeds.
And it will have to do for this summer.
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I love the idea and might have done that but any place where I could put those would be exposed to the deer. They eat all kinds of things you might not think they would. And snakes would take up in them. I'm right on the edge of civilization and the wildlife tend to have our neighborhood penciled in as a summer treat spot.
I used an old water tough that leaked for a couple years. Had to build up the bottom level with scrap wood then a foot of soil and 8" to the top. You can get a lot of plants in one of those things!
Here there are natural factors that dictate a lot about how and where the garden can go. It's getting brutally hot in summer and can roast everything in a full sun location. Shading is important as is protection from wind, which is why the tomatoes are not here on the hill. One wind event can trash everything in a short time so knowing where the wind blows is important too. And you have to add soil, in many places there's only dirt.
I might try the bales next year, though. Thank for the video!