2012 growing season begins now.

The greenhouse is in full swing. We've got tons of greens growing. We have as much Bok Choi as we can possibly eat. This week we moved some seedlings into pots in the greenhouse. The seedlings were tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, squash, basil, wonderberry, eggplant and collards. We had started them in early January. We planned on planting them directly into the greenhouse soil, however, we heard some bad news. My aunt (Who is letting us use her property for the greenhouse) has decided she wants to start getting her house ready for sale. She wants her yard back to grass sometime this year. We decided to put the seedlings into pots so we can move them to our back yard/raised bed garden in late April. By then, the plants will surely be full sized patio plants. The squash plants won't be movable, since they are viners.  That's ok, we'll probably have some hand-pollinated fruits by then.

I've jotted down a list of some of the supplies Deb and I have already purchased this year:

Drip irrigation system

     irrigation timer

     Limestone

     Dr Earth

     bacillus thuringiensis

     organic fertilizer spikes(on sale)

     yellow sticky traps

     ladybugs (for gh)

     azomite

     cocoa coir

     heat mat

     plastic labels

     useless metal labels

     rootrainers seed starter

Today I decided to put a second layer of plastic over the greenhouse. It made a noticeable difference while I was there. The temperature started rising fast. We have some cold nights ahead of us in the 10 day forecast. It should drop into the mid 20s. I'm sure the 900 watt space heater could keep the frost away with a single layer of polyethylene, however, the temperature should stay about 50 at night for the young tender seedlings. We have a min/max thermometer. Last night the temperature got down to 45 degrees inside the greenhouse with an outside temperature of 31. I'll check it tomorrow to see what the double plastic does.