kaczercat

small update
sold all the mango seedlings, will be starting a new batch this week.

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Matt

edwmax

Update on my GreenHouse construction. I built this because I needed to start my garden seeds; a place to move a few potted bananas out of the house; and to grow TC banana plants if needed. For the past 4 or 5 years I've started seeds under a 5ft by 5ft pvc frame with ploy draped over it. That was ok for the seeds, but now I needed something a little bigger and more stable.

Anyway, this past Thursday & Friday nights the temps drop into the mid 30's; and last night down to 44 deg F. With a small electric space heater the interior was easy to keep at about 65 deg F. during the night. During the day with out temps in the 70s the interior temp can go over 120 deg F if vents and doors are closed.

I completed and closed up the side vents last Wednesday afternoon. A few small details are left, but the basic construction of the greenhouse is complete. This was really easy to build.

Picture of one of the two side vent panels:


Interior views:

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edwmax

Just a note on my Greenhouse. I have 10 flats of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants grown from seed. At the High School FFA plant sale last week, flats were $15 each. So I have $150 (about $300 retail) of vegetables for the garden. I'm also rooting azalea, rosemary, and Cherokee Roses. ... There are 14 pots of bananas being rehabilitated and I have saved my dying Myers Lemon (too much chicken manure). The Myers had regrown it leaves and has already bloomed.

The cost of building the little greenhouse (less than $100??) has way-more than paid for itself with just the saving of buying vegetable plants for the garden. And there is the learning I had to save the bananas and the lemon.

OK ... pictures:




Current improvements, to extend usability during the spring & fall, that I'll be working on are:
*more air flow & cooling. On sunny spring days of mid 70's, the greenhouse temp is over 100. Not good for the bananas although the tomatoes didn't seem to mind.

* installing a timer & misting system for plant rooting.

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