Ohio Barn Flower Farm

It is so cold that I decided to cover the germination station and put a small heater inside even though the trays are on heat mats.  It is working well, it stays about 55-60F inside and the heat mats are set to 70F.  

Now that the seed sowing is underway it a race against the clock to get my temporary greenhouse ready.  I am converting an old shed into a greenhouse for this year.  It is a 12x12 metal frame that I am just going to cover with 6 mill greenhouse polly.  It will have to do.  Next year I have plans to by a kit and build a much bigger greenhouse.

I am so excited, if you zoom in add look real close you can see the first OBFF sprout sighting@! Sowing these tinny seeds is so hard and you feel like you are doing nothing. The entire time you keep thinking that there is no way something can come of this but look!  BTW, it was a Black Eyed Susan, Denver Daisy on 2/19/2020. The first sprout Black Eyed Susan, Denver Dasy

After weeks of planning in the "OBFF Situation Room" Teresa and I finally sowed our first OBFF seed! (and yes that is on the door to our "dining room" :-) The First Seed The Stuff The Face

We finished our winter planning session and will be sowing seeds this weekend!   I will post some details soon about which flowers made the cut, pun intended :-)   For now I just want to say, let the chaos begin!

Tonight, I wired up the germination station with heating mats and their thermostats. Also put hoops on the top so that soon I will enclose it in a poly wrap to hold in heat.  The first sowing is planned for 2/17 then it will be off to the races!