Funny Story April 11, 2009
Posted by liajo in Bubba & Allie, good things, Greenhouse Gardening, life.Tags: compost, dogs, family, gardening, greenhouse, life, vegetables
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Wednesday was a beautiful day here so I decided to get in some yard work. One of things I wanted to get done was some prep work in the vegetable garden. 
I can’t go outside without the dogs, Bubba and Allie wanting to come with me, so we all went out back.
I was in the fenced garden clearing out all the coverings I had left on the beds during the winter. I also had a pocket full of trash that had blown in. Needing to dump the ground covering material in the compost pile and throw the trash away I came out of the garden.
There was Allie wagging her tail and running around. But no Bubba, I didn’t see him anywhere. So I asked Allie “Where’s your brother, where’s the Bubba dog?”
As soon as I said his name Bubba comes a running, from the greenhouse. Now at the end of fall I knew I had gotten the greenhouse ready for winter and all zipped down tight. But somehow Bubba got the front zipper up just enough so he could go inside. I’m guessing to lay on the warm, dry ground.
After putting both dogs in the house I checked to greenhouse. Bubba had done no damage, there really wasn’t anything to damage. I also check the thermometer that I had put in the ground. It was reading 80 degrees.
I didn’t plant in the greenhouse this winter and hadn’t gotten it ready yet to move the tomato seedlings into. But it’s being used, as an over sized dogie sauna.
Winter gardening October 21, 2008
Posted by liajo in Greenhouse Gardening.Tags: carrots, cold, Colorado, composted, freeze, gardening, greenhouse, lettuce, mulch, peas, peppers, seeds, snow, spinach, spinach salad, watering, winter, year round gardening
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Last weekend we tightened up the greenhouse for winter and I cleared out all the old pepper plants and composted. This will be the first winter that I actually try planting in the greenhouse. I have cold weather seeds like carrots, spinach, lettuce and peas and I hope to get them planted in the next week or two.
There are a few things that I haven’t quit worked out yet. One of them is watering. I may need to carry it from the house because our out side hoses and faucets can freeze up. Next is snow. As excited I am about year round gardening, I not real excited about tramping through the snow to get there.
I also need to make sure it’s not getting to cold. Besides the tightening I’ll mulch around the entire outside bottom to keep some of the cold air out. I’ve also read that if I compost in the greenhouse it will help keep the temperature up. I put my meat thermometer in the ground today, I’ll check it in the morning to see how cold it is about 7am.
While I don’t believe winter gardening is going to easy I am looking forward to eating a fresh spinach salad that came out of my backyard in Colorado in December. To cool.
