There were two days this past week when the weather was sunny and about 40 degrees F. I start up the greenhouse usually by the 2nd week of March. It was the perfect time to get it cleaned up and items removed to make room for all the seedlings.
I keep the wheelbarrow, short ladder and all the containers in the greenhouse for the winter months. The hanging baskets and tower gardens all needed to be emptied into the wheelbarrow to refresh the soil.
I put my husband on that task while I swept the shelves and walls to remove any spider webs. Then the floor was cleaned well after moving all the pots around.
My husband did a great job rejuvenating the soil and amending it with nutrients. He then refilled them and put them back into the greenhouse.
The small towers are filled, stacked and ready to receive the spinach and lettuce seedlings. The onions are ready to go outside too and start getting that natural sunlight before I plant them out into the raised beds.
I have two more on the floor ready for Bok Choi too. Once I have the herbs a decent size I will transplant them into the remaining towers.
By the time we got all the prep work done my back was tired. So changing the soil in the larger container pots will have to be done another day. This week it is supposed get above 50 degrees F. That might just be the day I get that done and the hydroponic system set up as well.
It is time to get my plants outside as they are getting too large to be under the lights. I had to spend the day transplanting some of them up into larger cells.
The cold hardy cabbages are a nice size already and will benefit being out in the greenhouse to harden off.
The pepper plants are all getting a bit too large, too fast. I will have to transplant them all into 4" pots in two weeks before I move them into the greenhouse.
This is my progress update for the first week of #March. It won't be long before all the seedlings will get to go into the greenhouse. Spring is right around the corner, yay!
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