Hello, steemians! Welcome to my greenhouse!
Yesterday was one of those days that's nice enough to motivate me to go outside and do stuff. We took a trip to the local big box store to get a few things. I'm planning on changing out at least half of the soil in each of the planting pots in the greenhouse, so I was hoping to find some potting soil on sale. I did manage to find a pretty good deal on some 1.5 cubic foot bags of what was labeled "raised bed" soil. After doing some mental calculations on the various prices of the different bags of soil, these were the lowest cost per cubic foot, so I bought 4 bags. I probably would have bought a couple more, but the few that were left either had a hole in them or were still frozen to the pallet. I might go back tomorrow and see if there's any bags left.
I also bought a flat of marigolds, and a cat mint plant while we were there. It's easy to get carried away in the moment when garden season is near.
Then we went to the local Tractor Supply store because my house mate wanted to get something from there. I was looking at the starter plants and seeds, and ended up buying 4 strawberry plants, and 3 tomato plants. Behind the strawberry plants in this picture is the cat mint plant from the big box store.
I don't know why I bought the tomato plants, it really is too early to have them in the greenhouse. The strawberry plants are to replace the ones that didn't survive the freeze thaw cycles in the greenhouse this past winter.
I knew that the tomato plants would need to be repotted right away due to their size, so I got started on that.
I also decided that, as long as I was repotting the tomato plants, I might as well put the strawberry plants in bigger pots as well. I put 2 of the plants into one wide pot, and the other 2 I put in separate pots. I only had 1 of the wide pots to use.
The nights are not supposed to drop below freezing this week, so it may not get cold enough in the greenhouse at night to kill the tomato plants. I figured that getting a couple of tomato plants is the easiest way to find out if they'll survive in the greenhouse. If they do die, at least it's only a couple of plants, and not a bunch of them. I know that I'm pushing the growing season a bit, but it will be interesting to see what happens with the tomato plants. I'm not worried about the strawberry plants, they can handle a bit of cold weather.
Well, that's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
Thanks for stopping by my page to check out my greenhouse post, eh!
Reminding me that my potted strawberries need a bit of TLC and more pots.
Thanks for stopping by my post! :-)
wow! lookin good already. you are so industrious :)
Industrious, or psycopathically driven? I'm not sure which... :-)
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