End of Feburary greenhouse report

 The beets look good, I will need to thin them soon.

 Looks like the green beans are coming on.

 The onions and garlic are going to town too.  There are two pans one of onions only and one with onions and garlic.

 The strawberries look like they need something.  I will have to search online to see what they need.

 I started a sweet potato in the window for slips.  Its organic so it should be good.  Should be showing signs of roots and slips soon.

The peppers and tomatoes look good too.  I will be planting the tomatoes elsewhere soon.

End of January 2013 greenhouse report

The transplanted tomatoes, green peppers and jalapenos look great.  This weekend we are going to get the bottom of the buckets cut off and the holes dug around the greenhouse in preparation of transplanting the tomatoes in about mid February.

The cut and come again lettuce also looks good and is ready to use.  I didn't take a picture but the cucumbers at the back of the other planted pan are looking great and will be needing to be trained on the trellis soon.  That's another thing we will do this weekend.  Install the trellis.  Jeff is also going to run the water to the greenhouse so I can just step outside to get water instead of carrying it.  It will be easier to water the tomatoes when I get them planted along the one side of the greenhouse as well.

This has been fun so far.  I am going to try to keep a diary of sorts of my greenhouse/garden project this year.  I have tried many different types of gardening and I love them all.  I have don't the Ruth Stout method, a greenhouse growing in the ground, growing in raised beds in a greenhouse, plain old in the yard gardens and now container gardening in and outside of the greenhouse.  There is merit in each method.

An answer for you.

A reader asked me where I got the pans for my greenhouse.  The answer is I got them at Lowes.  They are cement mixing pans and are about 2x3 feet.  I found some smaller ones but these are the ones I wanted.  I think they are at least ten inches deep. 
Thank you for the question.

If I remember right they cost around $13.00 each.  I am thinking I want to buy 6 more to put on the floor for another level of growing places.  I can put things down there that aren't harvested as often and just need a place to grow such as beets.

Greenhouse update

 This pan isn't as productive as the other two.  Along the back are cucumbers.  I planted two tomatoes there for now.  I will put them somewhere else later and replant something else in that space.

 I bought my tomato, green pepper and jalapeno plant this weekend.  I planted most of them in this one planter.  I will put the tomatoes somewhere else in a couple of weeks.  Most likely large pot I will sit on the floor of the greenhouse.  The peppers can stay in this planter.

I just watered this planter so it doesn't look all that good but the lettuce is coming along fine.  In fact its ready to cut.  Its cut and come again kind so should be good for a while.

I plan to plant an entire planter with just beets.  I may also plant green beans along the back edge of one or two planters.  We plan to place cut up cattle panels along the back side of the planters for climbing plants to use.  So far I have already learned to use more soil in each planter because the soil packs down as it is watered and ends up not being as full as I thought it was at first.

Waist high gardening

A few weeks ago we built shelves in my greenhouse using the shelves from the storage trailer which we are cleaning out in preparation of selling it.
I wanted to do the waist high gardening method in the hope that it wont hurt my back so much.  We gathered all the materials needed and now have two of the containers planted with carrots, cucumbers and lettuces and spinach.

I thought I would share what the greenhouse looks like right now.