Growing plants in the Rockies» The Greenhouse http://www.bananabender.com Greenhouse gardening at 8500ft Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:29:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Its cold and the greenhouse is still growing http://www.bananabender.com/2008/12/04/its-cold-and-the-greenhouse-is-still-growing/ http://www.bananabender.com/2008/12/04/its-cold-and-the-greenhouse-is-still-growing/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:50:09 +0000 Chris http://www.bananabender.com/?p=364

Well its been a while since I have updated this blog, with recurrent training at work and then vacation it just has been too hard to do the updates, but here it is!

The hydroponics now rule the greenhouse, which is great as there is no way to have a watering system for soil based plants when its below freezing outside.

Today is was 8 F outside, there was snow on the greenhouse roof and it was 55 – 60 F inside (with the help of a fan heater set at 55 F )

These pepper plants came from the soil based garden and hae thrived since been washed and transfered to hydroponics. The tomatoes are grown from seed and are getting there
This is the little greenhouse that could as it sat today in the cold and snow, it was 5 F
Strawberries, who would have thought, these plants too came from the soil garden and started getting fruit on them within 1 week of being soilless
the ebb and flow system in operation, and just 1 month old
the lower level, still waiting for more plants to grow from seed ... which is the slowest stage of the growth
this is a little iceberg lettuce seedling
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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

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