Preparations

Greenhouse is finally underway

Finally getting round to the greenhouse with the awesome help of our friends Ashley and Jeremy.  It totally looks like we can grow something in it.  We added a bunch of composted rabbit and chicken manure.   We are going to build a compost pile in the greenhouse to experiment with a biomass style of heating.

Initially, we are going to use the greenhouse for several functions.  It will be used to plant directly into the ground, a place to start seeds and tend to seedlings, other container growing, we might plant our miejer lemon trees in the ground there, as well as our avocados , and it will be used for some equipment storage.

Getting electricity and water to the greenhouse is going to be tricky.  The only real power that is needed is for a fan to circulate air.  Water, is  a different matter all together.  A total reconfiguration of our irrigation systems needs to happen.  But that needs to happen anyways.

Relax get to it.

Mother Nature has made it pretty apparent that we do not need to go outside today. A beautiful heavy snow falls, while our fireplace has not stopped burning for the past couple days. There is still so many things that need to get done.
Our trip to Chicago for ten days was wonderful and hectic. Sadie and I both came down with different sickness. And we are both still recovering. Being sick has impeded the getting back into the swing of things.
Back at home we are mentally sorting out all that needs to be done in preparation for next season. Headaches for logistics, are happening more often than not, but some sort of revamping of the way we do things needs to happen. Restarting at basically square one again for next year combined with what we learned from this past year makes techniques on improvement all the more difficult to agree on.