Plastic on the greenhouse

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.

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Memorial Day Irrigation Installation Begins

It has been awhile since my last post but that is because Teresa and I have been very busy. This is Memorial Day so I thought I would give a snapshot of where we are so far. Sowing – I am about a month behind on my sowing schedule. It is a hard thing to manage. For the longest time it was so cold, and we had no Sun. The green house was good and could hold a temperature, but the lack of Sun meant things were not growing well. All the trays had green mold looking stuff and I was worried we were going to start losing plants. I think I started too soon because the plants outgrew their 72 cell trays and stop growing but I thought it was because of the mold and lack of Sun. At some point we started transplanting into 2in pots and some plants just took off. That was cool. So now the focus was on prepping the field. Field Prep – Burning the holes in the ground cover took me awhile to figure out how to do well and it was hard to...

Ground Cover Spacing Template

Field prep is going well. Last fall I applied about an inch of mushroom compost and covered that with leaves from the yard then let that "soak" in over the winter. Today, I put down some fertilizer and tilled it in. Next I need to spread about an inch or two of leaf compost seen in the pic here being dumped from the truck. Once I spread the compost I will cover with the Sunbelt ground cover for weed suppression. The ground cover needs holes for the plants and to do that I created a 9x9 template and started to use it to burn holes. It works good but I ran out of day light. I will take another pick soon when I am done with the first strip. BTW, 100 feet of cover rolled out on the driveway looks much longer than out in the field. 100 feet is going to be a ton of flowers. I can't wait! 9x9 template positioned on the ground cover ready to burn holes Leaf Compost from the Mulch Man The field after fertilizer worked in ready for more compost and ground ...

First Seed Sowed

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

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