Greenhouse Update - April 27th

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 OK, time for an update.  To the left is a photo of the greenhouse currently.  Due to the warm early weather I did a lot of planting of summer crops early in March.  On account of this we are about 45
days into the growing season.  I have begun constructing raised beds according to the grand plan, and filling them with soil removed from an area of my basement.  Below is a string of close up photos of a few of the crop beds; they are looking pretty good considering without a hoophouse most of these crops would barely even be planted yet. 
First Planting of sweet corn, green beans, and sweet potatoes.  The green beans are beginning to bloom, and the corn is about waist high.

This bed contains the second planting of green beans, sweet corn, and sweet potatoes which have been planted as sister crops.  Visible in this photo are tomatos, and sweet bell peppers.  Note the heavy bloom set on the tomatos.

This bed contains cabbage, broccolli, more tomato, and eggplant.

Onions planted by the square foot method.





Potatoes in straw.  These potatoes were hilled with excess soil from the basement, side dressed with compost, and given a liberal application of straw.

Zucchinni, Cucumber and Okra in the foreground with carrots planted in the square foot method.  This square is where the compost pile was situated previously.  Compost materials were removed to an outdoor pile, applied to the potatoes, and worked into the soil.
Just for fun we have some outdoor photos.

the grape, raspberry, and blackberry trellis.

a baby cluster of grapes.

small apples on the apple tree.

small peaches on the peach tree.  the peaches are so numerous I'll need to remove some so the rest can develop fully.

That's it for today folks, check back in a few weeks for updates.

Comments

  1. UnknownMay 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    I'm taking full credit for any success of the onions. What is the spacing on those? Are they really as dense as it appears? Are you sure there will be enough space for them to grow fully?
    Everything else looks really good. Darn you and your perfect soil. Are you not worried about the sweet potatoes attempting to choke the corn? And I thought I saw a zucchini or squash of some sort growing in with the potatoes. Is that intentional or was that a volunteer?

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  2. joshJanuary 31, 2013 at 7:46 AM

    Hindsight is 20-20. The onions were planted too close together; I had planned to thin them and use them for green onions but never quite got around to that. I am not worried about the sweet potatoes, they don't climb much, and the corn did outstrip them in height, this sistering arrangement worked out fairly well, though the dry summer and lack of extra water really limited the sweet potato production. There was a volunteer cantalouope among the potatoes which I let grow.

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