Greenhouse

Corrugated gray poly-carbonate sheets cut by My Loving Spouse with a metal cutting blade in his grinder became the roof for our Greenhouse. The gray ‘roofing’ material also became our gable ends.

I’d like to tell you that putting on the roof was a piece of cake, but there was a bit of a learning curve to our keeping it straight. It could possibly be ‘user error’.

The old windows we used open on one side. There are enough gaps in how we built it to let in our friendly bee polinators.

We’ve got our tomatoes in half barrels as raised beds. We’re using strings attached to the roof to help support the vines.

My Loving Spouse built a slated counter height bench for starting plants and right now we are working on tomatillos. We’re behind on everything, but seriously, what else is new. I’m planning on being really ahead on next year’s growing!

What great fun we will have experimenting with our Greenhouse. If we stink at growing stuff, at least it is cute. We make a ‘Dutch door’ with a re-salvaged door and another re-salvaged window. I roll the barrel I’ve been saving/hording out of the field, setting it next to the Greenhouse, for nothing other than its charm.

We didn’t plant a thing this last weekend, as we were working on fences. Re-doing the field fence, that to quote someone around here, “the bloody cows made a mess of”. I am counting the hours until ‘my’ summer begins and our school year is over.

So what are your plans this summer, where odd times reign supreme?

We’ve plans for another animal addition to the farm. Can you guess what it or they are?

Here are some hints:

4 legs

a tail

cute

one set of teeth

…and we are blessed!