Greenhouse in June 2014. Dave and I love to sit and visit about our greenhouse projects and admire the foliage. Corinto cucumbers overhead.
Here is a quick tour of our greenhouse and what we are growing in there. Take a look! We have had a great experience in our first year!
This is 2014, our first year of Greenhouse growing. We can’t believe how well everything has done our there. Take a look!
Dave and I spend a LOT of time in our chairs, sitting and gazing at the green wonderland he created for us. He happily putters about his plants daily. Building this indoor growing space has benefitted us in so many ways. The motivation behind this project was getting more space for his tomatoes and peppers and giving them a longer growing season. He accomplished both of those things. Plus I can grow herbs! Rosemary, Lemon Thyme and basil love this warm friendly growing space. cucumbers thrive in here as well.
Our greenhouse in spring 2015. A successful first year! Notice the white panels on the bottom of the greenhouse wall. Those are vents. They are open all summer and closed when temperatures get below 50 degrees F.
We have discovered a few problems with growing the greenhouse way though. In two words, Pests and Molds! Aphids moved in almost instantly on the backs of a colony of ants and installed themselves cozily into our peppers. Our aphid wars and remedies are discussed in this post about aphids in our greenhouse. We use organic methods, so the battle is long, protracted and perpetual! But our peppers are outstanding!
These are sweet bells peppers. Just picked for our supper tonight. 2014
The tomatoes are visited by an infinite variety of molds, wilt and other funguses. Dave plants resistant varieties. He says you can tell WHAT they are resistant to by looking at what is attacking them. They are not getting the same diseases. They resist certain ones and get the others! We have TONS of ventilation, Three fans going all the time and our open North wall door. Molds still come! Incredibly though, the tomatoes are absolutely gorgeous!
Our first greenhouse tomatoes. 2014
Our Peppers 2014
We installed this high horizontal trellis to make use of the high ceiling space and give us something to grow and hang things from. The cucumbers did pretty well up there. We had to use tall ladders for harvest though and watering. Kind of awkward, but the cucumbers were stellar!
Our horizontal trellis growing Corinto cucumbers in the greenhouse. 2014
Our tomato trellis. A double trellis to support the vines. Works Great!
Trying my hand at growing Turmeric root at home.
Ginger is not as happy in the greenhouse as turmeric. But still growing
Krimson Lee peppers ripening in the greenhouse in August.
We plan to use the greenhouse almost year round by alternating crops. Winter crops will be mostly cool weather leafy greens like kale, asian greens and Arugula. Dave also starts all his seedlings out there. They love the greenhouse too!
Thinking about a greenhouse? We highly recommend it:)
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Audrey
September 19, 2015 at 1:49 pmI am so jealous! of your huge yard, of your greenhouse and of your harvest!
Thanks for sharing on the #HomeMattersParty. I hope you will join us next week too.
homemadefoodjunkie
September 19, 2015 at 1:52 pmThank you Audrey, It’s a lovely party. I’ll be back!