21 Jun

Too hot for the baby bok choi

Posted by Chris in Spring, Veggies.

Well the greenhouse has turned out to be either too hot, or too much of a temperature variation for the bok choi. They are going straight to seed, and flower.

I actually thought it was because there were too many plants close together, but after separating the plants they still go straight to flower. Oh well today they will be removed and replaced with something else… oh well maybe we will try again in the fall. (or get some better/different seeds)

Going to seed
Bok choi flowering

Pak Choi Baby Green Fortune Seeds

12 Jun

Poly Grow Bags

Posted by Chris in Spring, Veggies.

To maximize space we were looking for some plastic pots and could get only 2 gallon ones from Home Depot for $2 each (walmart had sold out of the 88cent pots of course), so I remembered from my old hoop house growing days of propagating plants when I was a teenager that I used to use plastic bags for growing. So after a little searching I found the name of them, Poly Grow Bags and got some from wormsway.com . It was only $2 for 10, 2 gallon bags with white outside and black inside. The best thing was they were delivered in just 4 days , I did the order Monday at lunchtime and they were here in Colorado Thursday lunchtime, and they were sent fedex ground, the worlds worst carrier!!

Cauliflower in a poly bag
Poly grow bag
2 poly bags of Broccolli on left and 2 bags of basil right.


Here is a link to the bags from the same seller on Amazon:

7 Gallon Grow Bag Grow Bag - 2 Gallon

Ten 1/2 Gallon Gardening Grow Bag Pot Hps Hydroponics Planter

7 Jun

Week 5

Posted by Chris in Giant Tree Tomato, Herbs, Spring, Veggies.

A little later reporting the growth this week as I had to go to training in Dallas this week for work, but the greenhouse is growing growing growing…

Outside onions
PLants
Happy plants

Early bird tom
Beefsteak tomatoes
Beefsteaks showing their buns

Roma tomoatoes finally have started growing!
Bonnie select toms have gone mad this week
Zucchinnis

Attack of the killer zucchinnis
Hello bok choi
More bok choi

Green peppers
Red and green peppers planted last week - from walmart
Yellow peppers within tiny peppers on it

Red peppers with bok choi
Onions growing really well in a bag in the greenhouse...who knew?
Ichiban - eggplants, on a growing spurt

Mesulan mix planted a week ago is here
Sickly little early tomatoe that came with the giant tomato trees
Giant tomato tree becoming a giant

Other giant tomato tree
Herbs and herb seedlings
Tubs of herbs

2 weeks since planting and they are ready to move
Strawberrys a little word for wear
Some cos lettuce


29 May

Giant Tree tomotoes - progress, week 5 and look at them!

Posted by Chris in Giant Tree Tomato, Spring.

This is now I think week 5 since we received these seedlings and planted them, out of the 3 pots of seeds, only 2 pots produced 1 seedling each. We just transplanted them into their bags.

Giant Tree Tomato Plants
Up close and personal
Will this little plant really produce hundreds of pounds of tomatoes???


29 May

Week 4…the sun is shining

Posted by Chris in Herbs, Spring, Veggies.

Well week 4 of the growth cycle has come and gone, and everything is on track and no deaths… Althought the Giant Tree Tomatoes are still faultering. Here is what is all looks like:

The greenhouse bathed in sun for a change
Onions go crazy in a greenhouse
Green peppers, with a couple little peppers growing already

Toms gorwing really quickly
The early riser tomatoes are growing fast
Beefsteak tomato plants

Beefsteaks bulging slowly
Ichibans / eggplants getting there slowly
The first early bird tomatoe seed is planted

Bok choi after separating and dividing, still too many though probably
Bonnie select tomato plant, slow to grow
Zucchini plants, we had to separate one from the pack this week

A store bought zucchini on the right and one of our seedlings on the left
Roma Tomatoes are really slow starters, only just getting flowers
Sedling area, 5 days and they appear when in the greenhouse

The herbs, Thyme Oregano and Basil ( although we now notice the basil is labelled wrong and its lemon basil)
Green and yellow peppers just getting flowers and fruit
The strawberry tube is thriving


21 May

Week 3 of growth…its getting there

Posted by Chris in Giant Tree Tomato, Herbs, Spring, Veggies.

Week 3 has come along, the greenhouse averages 50 degrees at night and 90 at its hottest during the day. Our plants are coming along slowly but surely, so far the winner is the strawberry plants bought from seedlings.

Outside onions survived the snow last week and are coming back to life
Bok choi in its 10th day of living
Green pepper has fruit

A little green pepper
Early toms
Early riser tom plant

Beefsteak toms doing really well
Beefsteaks growing really fast
Eggplants growing

Onions inside are growing fast
Giant tree tom seedlings on the right, Early bird tom single seedling on the left
Green pepper just getting fruit from its first flowers

Yellow peppers just getting flowers on it
Oregano is coming along
Basil

Lemon thyme
Oregano slowly coming along
Basil very slow, but when we bought them they were half dead

Italian parsley has recovered
zucchini coming along
Toms only just getting flowers

Toms slowly growing, and just getting flowers
The first strawberry
The strawberries and reall growing


14 May

The giants are rising

Posted by Chris in Giant Tree Tomato, Spring.

Our giant tree tomatoes bought from the infomercial on tv are finally sprouting! Just  11 days after opening the box and watering the plants. We were just about to write a email to the company we bought them from asking about germination time!

giant tree tomatoes are alive

Giant Tomatoes

14 May

The snow is over, lets turn summer back on!

Posted by Chris in Heating, Spring, The Greenhouse.

Ok after the brief interlude of snow for a day and freezing temperatures its over .

This morning we awoke to find clear skies, but still a temperature or a mere 28 F ! brrrrrrr.

Sun after the storm
The greenhouse is the only thing not frozen
let there be sun, please melt the snow quickly

This mornings temp of 56F outside 28 F
The heater working hard

The greenhouse was heated to stop everything freezing, just a simple 1500w ceramic fan heater set at 55 F, it turned off and on a lot, so the greenhouse is holding some heat with its little thermal mass. We did try buckets of water in the green house to try and store some heat and absorb some heat, but frankly I am coming to think this idea is just a waste of space. Maybe the wall of water idea would work better . At least this method we used with water in buckets did supply some evaporation and moisture to the greenhouse in this dry climate.

Here is this mornings temperature being held mainly by the heater:

This mornings temp of 56F outside 28 F

The heater working away..costing is money…(thankfully electricity is just 9.8 cents per kwh up here!)

The heater working hard

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