Lucy the puggle dog and I thought we’d give you a little tour around the greenhouse today and show you what’s growing.
Creepy Gnome Guy’s job this year is to protect the greenhouse. Last year he was stationed in the broccoli patch and the year before he protected the peas from the squirrels.
The chive border is coming in nicely and the tulips are about a week away from blooming.
So far we have spinach in the top gutter and romaine lettuce in the lower gutter. I think I’ll plant some toy choy in the two middle gutters later this week.
What do you think? Maybe a month to go before we are serving Cesar salads?
Lemon the lemon tree is hanging in there and we are starting to harden off a bunch of vegetable and flower flats. I think in another few weeks I’ll try and move all the heirloom tomato plants out to the greenhouse. We’ll see.
And last but not least, round 2 of the cabbage starts.
Yep, I’d say things are looking pretty good for this time of year. Warming temps, no snow or other wacky weather to speak of and plenty of sticks to chew on. What more could a girl and her dog ask for?
Life is good.
~Mavis
If you are thinking about growing food in a greenhouse but don’t know how to get started, you should check out Elliot Coleman’s book Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long. I think it’s pretty awesome.
Christian says
Dang! That’s a LOT of cabbage! What do you do with it all?
Cecily says
Eliot Coleman’s wife, Barbara Damrosch, wrote a book called Theme Gardens. It is awsome and inspiring. You should check it out sometime.
LuAnn Braley says
What a cute little dog!
Kim says
You know you have enough food growing that you can actually start eating it now. I would go throughout the greenhouse picking a leaf or two from each of the lettuce plants, then a few small snips of chives and continue throughout the garden. You will be surprised how the little nips and snips add up to a nice size salad!
Mary Ann says
Lucy is such a ham! She could not be any cuter. 🙂
Jesse says
Stop chewing on sticks Mavis! You can wait for the plants to grow!
Margaret Thele says
Been eating greens out of a greehouse all winter – of course it has been heated to 55-60F. Love the horizontal gutters – I hadn’t thought of that for my houses, but I have mine shelved stem to stern with cheap plastic shelves – can fit lots of flats of plants that way.
Charla Echlin says
I love the gutter idea- I may do that on my next greenhouse!
Just an fyi Mavis- since we both live in the PNW, my pup Samson chewed on an old dead rhody branch (which there are tons out here!) for like 10 seconds before I pulled it out of his mouth and he got violently sick that night! poor little guy- only 8 wks old and so so sick! Rhody’s and Azaleas are very poisonous (I always think leaves, not dead branches)-Scary too because I was in the Harbor, and there is NO emergency vet there- have to drive to Tacoma! Thankfully he was ok- but just so you’re aware- these pups chew on everything!
Mavis says
Thanks for letting me know. We don’t have any rhody’s or azaleas, but that’s good to know!