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So very beautiful!This is how it looks today, sun’s still pretty low on the horizon, this is at 3:00pm.
we gained 2 minutes today!
I finally poked a couple of Bush Crop Cucumber seeds into large soil blocks yesterday Alasgun. Better late than not at all, right? The description says that they are great for growing in pots or small spaces, and that they are early and productive. With a little luck I will be knee-deep in cucumbers by mid-March!Cant eat them fast enough! Might have to make some pickles,
That's an amazing idea. I love your setup. I'm wanting to get something similar to yours but my husband doesn't like building anything.Due to our short season and the challenges that presents, a greenhouse is essential if you want to reliably grow some things up here.
we grow tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, bush beans, celery, parsley and summer squash in ours.
initially there were shelves around the sides and we placed smartpots on those shelves.
Well, pretty soon you’ve got everything jamming into the ceiling, making things difficult.
Last winter i upgraded by building the beds shown here. It accomplished a couple things beyond lowering the plants and now the irrigation is more user friendly, the crops have a deeper bed for a better root zone and it’s easier to maintain than with the bags. In the fall all the bags were dumped into brute containers and re-amended for the following year then the bags refilled each spring. Now i just apply the compost in the fall and walk away from it!
just some odd rambling here and a few pictures inside and out. In the spring it’s pretty loaded up till i move all the stuff on the sawhorses etc out to the beds. Then in short order it becomes it’s own jungle!
We keep the heat set at 65 and turn it down to 60 at night. However; with a pair of 4ft 4 tube T-5 lights running 16 hours a day, additional heat is generated. When the lights are on id say its roughly 70. The plants are in a 16 gallon fabric pot filled with FF Ocean forest or 707 potting soil. Both contain a lot of good stuff and i augment the nutrition with a solution i put together here. 6 parts fermented rabbit urine, 2 parts liquid kelp and 2 parts black strap molasses.There are nice looking cotyledons on each of my cucumbers now, and before long they will need to go downstairs to grow on under lights. I have a question for you please Alasgun: about how warm is it in the room where your bath tub cucumbers are growing?