Mini Greenhouse

67 in the greenhouse 52 out.

Mini Greenhouse

It looks like it will be a few more weeks until the warm weather arrives so I built this miniature greenhouse for the peppers. The windows were the originals installed in Pacific Hall at the U of O.

Planting - 5-22-2011

Now that the garden beds are complete it's time to start planting. The forecast is for 60s during the day and 40s at night. Not exactly warm crop weather. I forged ahead with some things like peppers, basil and squash as my beds are at 73 because of the composting action of the new dirt. We will see how it goes.

Here is the list of things that I planted today:

Cabbage Farao
Cabbage similar red 80
Beets (seeds)
Brussels sprouts Churchill.
Cavali squash (seed)
Fennel
Thai basil
Genovese basil
Italic parsley
Carrots (seed)
Broccoli (seed)
Holy mole pepper
Pimento pepper
Jamaican pepper
Ghost pepper
Jalapeño pepper
Trumbetta di Albenga (seed)
Sugar pumpkin (seed)

Garden bed construction - complete!

Thanks to the help of a great friend we finished moving the dirt. He was so kind he brought along some "cajun ice" (great cajun food from Louisiana frozen and used to send biological samples).

After


Before

Garlic transplanting

I had garlic planted from the fall in one of the old beds that was to be remodeled. So I transplanted half grown plants. As you can see, most of the dirt was removed when transplanting. Many of the roots were pulled off in the process. As garlic is similar to onions I figure that they will be just fine after they re-establish roots. I have never tried this or seen it done.


Garlic the day after the transplant. The plants are a little wilted and some are turning brown. This was likely caused by the root damage. The weather is supposed to be mild and wet. I'm pretty sure the plants will recover (we will see). I don't know if this will disrupt bulb production.

Garden bed construction - Dirt Moving Party

Busy filling the beds.


Happy dirt movers! With the motivation of a little Oakshire IPA and the promise of BBQ, we kicked out two beds in a few hours. Thanks to everyone for your help!!

Garden bed construction - Filling the beds

Filling the beds with soil. Had to build a ramp to be able to dump the dirt over the 24" walls.

Garden bed construction - Large pile of soil

2 units (15 yards) of Nature's Best planting soil for the new garden beds. Description from Lane Forest Products: "

Ingredients
Aged sawdust & bark, compost, potash, silica sand, loam and sand blended with a custom organic fertilizer mix consisting of kelp meal, fish bone meal, blood meal, alfalfa meal, micro and macro nutrients, scrambled eggs, hash browns, side of toast, and bat guano. We have also added "Plant Success" Mycorrhizal fungi for root development."

Garden bed construction - attachment of posts

Kreg Jig in action.

Inside of bed attachment of post to sides. The Kreg jig creates a very clean look and is very strong.

Garden bed construction - post detail

Post detail of new garden beds.

Garden bed construction

Before images of where the new beds are going to be. There will be 4 - 4'x12'x2' cedar beds placed in this area. The old beds in the image will be removed.


Brother Adam working hard drilling holes with the Kreg jig. The jig is a beautiful thing. It makes for a very clean installation. Thanks Susie!


Ducks working hard!



New beds. There will be four total. They are much bigger then I pictured in my head. It's going to take a lot of dirt to fill these things. Plenty of growing space!