Even though it was super warm out yesterday {80’s!} I still managed to get outside and garden for a few hours without keeling over. The HH LOVES the heat but my favorite temperature for working outside is somewhere around 65 degrees with a slight chill in the air {which just happens to be the perfect weather for jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt I might add}. 😉
Anywho, while I was out there I snapped a few photos of our greenhouse garden.
Take a look at that sage!!!! It’s it gorgeous? I’m going to go pick a bunch of it today and toss it in the food dehydrator for a nice ole’ turkey rub.
Have you checked you chive plants lately? Most of mine have all flowered and are starting to dry up. Yay! This means I’ll be collecting and saving chive seeds for next years garden pretty soon.
And the oregano and rosemary plants are doing pretty well too. I should get out there and harvest a bunch before it goes to seed because I’m going to need it for my heirloom tomato sauce this summer once the tomatoes start rolling in.
And speaking of tomatoes… the tomato plants we planted in the stock tanks this spring are almost to the ceiling!! How crazy is that? 
I know I planted Green Zebra and Sun Gold tomato starts in the greenhouse but I’m not sure what variety this one is. I can tell it’s going to be a big one though because of how large the flower heads are. Oh well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough. 
Grape tomatoes. My favorite.
And last but not least, a giant pot full of gourmet lettuce greens. Once this is harvested I probably won’t plant anymore lettuce in the greenhouse until September because the inside of the greenhouse will just be to hot to grow greens.
Ahh summer. I love you.
~Mavis
Julie Ann says
Ahh, Mavis! I follow your blog because: you rock; you live in one of my favorite states, and I live vicariously through your garden and frugality. Now I am bummed… I need a greenhouse to garden in the winter! Because if you’re getting 80’s temps and your herbs are going to seed, any herb I try to sow here in Southeast AZ would have surely gone to seed in March. The only thing that likes this weather is the narrow variety of old, reliable summer squashes. With average 5% (or less) humidity, and average rainfall of 2″ a year and three months of daily temps in the hundreds… cacti and mesquite are all I could manage to grow without major intervention and monetary investment. I am not fond of nopalitos. 😛
How and why did people manage to live here (in the arid desert) without grocery stores?? *tears*
Traci says
Mavis, I live about 2 hours south of you and have a small greenhouse. It’s 127 degrees in there right now! You can practically watch the tomatoes grow, of course you can’t because it’s too hot to stand there. I do spray it down every so often in the middle of the day.
Do you do anything when it gets too hot. Shade or hose it down?
Caryl says
WOW do your herbs look oh-so- fabulous! Curious about your use of the greenhouse in summer — I never really thought about growing things in a greenhouse during the summer, but rather to use a greenhouse to garden in the winter. I am amazed that you have lettuce in the greenhouse now…. maybe you are cooler than where I am in Virginia? It’s starting to be WAAAAAYYYYY too hot for lettuce here outside, let alone inside a greenhouse. Looks like the tomatoes like it though. I bet eggplants would be really happy in there too! 🙂