Spring has tried to sprung - spring. Sprout! Welcome back to our greenhouse page! In our last post we mentioned that we would be picking up some bags of compost and sunshine mix. Surprise! We picked up 100, not 40, bags of mushroom compost (in addition to the 5 bags of sunshine mix). We recruited some extra hands for the heavy lifting process. They were tanks! One of our guys lifted the bags like he was spreading room temperature butter. Mmmmm.... butter. Once the bags were in the greenhouse we stacked everything for thawing and started for mixing when we need it. The bags of sunshine mix have been the major task for this week in filling pots to prep for seeding. Aside from the thawing process, we are also still working on figuring out a plan for the heating in the greenhouse. We got the heat going with the help from Forge North, and are hoping for a follow up to get the heat above the current 6 degree temperature. We're in the North, we're groanin' the grown. Wish us luck! We've started looking in to water tanks for the greenhouse to get water in during the remaining winter. We will have to update you further, later. In the meantime, we built two tumbling composters. What a morning! We also built a wagon this week that has a lifting/dumping option. Two brains are better than one. I would have been still holding the pieces without that second brain. For our 6-plex work, which we thought we might be done but we aren't, we had some flooding problems to troubleshoot. We troubleshot by filling the center of the tower with coconut coir to help absorb some of the excess water. We also started parsley and mint sprouting here to be transplanted in to the tower at maturity. Must be patient. Wish we had more to report on - we've been delayed because of heating difficulties. Although we will be finishing in the program on Friday (tomorrow) we will be spending some time in the greenhouse next week in an attempt to have more to share with you for next week's blog post adventure. These will be taken over by Jessica after today. As a fun experiment, before leaving, we started a pineapple scraps growing project. If you want to learn how to do this in your kitchen, check out the website: https://www.todayshomeowner.com/how-to-grow-pineapples-as-houseplants/ The million dollar question - and the answer is - a windy plant has no bugs land on it. I (Terri) would like to take this opportunity to thank the Challenge Program and the greenhouse for the wonderful experience, for all the personal growth that we all had, all the training (Curtis), and wish the next participants all the best. Goodbye little lady bugs! We pass the torch to the new planters.
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