The Roothouse is Open!

Visited Jung's, our local nursery/greenhouse yesterday to get some clear plastic covers for my trays and a few more trays.

2 exciting discoveries:

1) they now have "web trays" which
    a) significantly cheaper than regular black plastic trays (they cost 75c) and
    b) they allow for airflow under my seed blocks so the roots will be naturally trimmed when they try to reach the bottom of the tray!

2) the root cellar is now open! I celebrated with high fives with my favorite Jung's lady who has been commiserating with me since January on the eventual opening of the root house. She showed me around plant by plant. We talked about a new zone 4 peach!!! We looked at cherries and asparagus (there may be some trouble getting the purple variety in this year) and I discovered leek starts! I had bought leek seeds and my early starts had a bit of a disaster. So, note to self: Don't buy leek seeds again. They are available at your local nursery/greenhouse (Jung's in my case) as starts! Onions also available in this form!!!

The greenhouse made its way out to the porch on Thursday. The first round of hopeful seedlings perished with my overly zealous placement. But, despite the bitterly cold spring, the second round is doing well. They are getting GREAT sun and are covered with either a clear plastic top or just some seran/cyran (sp?) wrap for those who have not yet sprouted. I'm a little curious of the indoor temp, but not enough to buy a thermometer :/

I discovered this morning that one side of my porch has a perfect setup for growing spinach in yogurt containers, so I started some more spinach.

I'm thinking I'll get 20 5 gallon buckets for some tomatoes/kale/etc. on the back porch as well…

Also plotting my worm bin (vermiculture). I'd love to have it on the back porch, but it will definitely get too hot in mid-summer. I could always move it, though that seems like a pain. But, if I harvest right before I move it, I think it won't be too much of a hassle/not too heavy and the convenience of having it right off the kitchen would be GREAT! for both depositing and withdrawals.

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