Growing In The Greenhouse

The greenhouse is filling with plants,mostly veg.plants.I have baby bear pumpkins,different kinds of squash,watermelons,all kinds of cukes,peppers,cabbage,crenshaw melons,& at last count I have over 140 tomato plants!! I will give alot away this year.The flowers I planted are mostly the sort I can dye the fiber with.I planted marigolds,hollyhocks,celoisa.I am having trouble with impatiens,don`t know if it is because it takes so long for them to germinate or not.The same with the wave petunias,I`ve had no luck.My tiny bell petunias from last year are blooming though.I have many nastriums planted & morning glories.
I plan to keep all of those cups & just wrap the plants in newspaper.They will be going to family & friends.Maybe next year when I know more about what I`m doing I will sell.I have a name picked out already,Fern Grotto Flowers & Fiber....

The Greenhouse

I learned alot about keeping a greenhouse.I won`t be heating with the kerosene heater again.I couldn`t tolerate the fumes,& neither could my plants.I still have a few plants left,but my huge cactus died.It died a slow death,I could`ve saved it,but maybe the roots are still good.I just couldn`t see manuvering the huge thing to the house as it started turning brown.When I went to get the dried sweet annie for bunny`s carrot,it too turned brown & smelled of fumes.I had some of it saved in the house so I can still make carrot tops from it.
I invested in an infrared red heat lamp,but will probably need 2 lamps for the 8/16' greenhouse.At any rate,things are popping up that we planted.My marker got wet so all the little sticks have run with the marker & we have only a small idea of what is what!!! I even kept a notebook as to what seed we have planted so I can grade on how the seeds did that I bought.Oh,well,that is the way with most things I do...here is the cabbage & marigolds,I believe,plus sugar baby watermelons & birdhouse gourds.I know the gourds do not transplant well,but hopefully I can place whole peat pot in the ground when it is time.
I worked in the bee balm section yesterday,it was so beautiful here in Pa.I cut off the stalks,threw more soil out & scattered the seeds.
Enclosing pics of yesterday,the crocus`s are blooming.The purple ones my sweet 3 year old neighbor girl,Ellie May {who moved away years ago}planted with me.I hope someday she will come to visit me when they are in bloom.