Category Archives: Greenhouse

Getting Ready

Posted on March 6, 2024 by dep31

Every year I have to do something different for my garden. This year, I’m experimenting with plant tags. I’ve tagged a few things before, but usually I print labels for all my plants pots. I got very tired of taking … Continue reading →

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Starting the Garden

Posted on March 3, 2024 by dep31

We have a relatively short growing season in Eastern Washington, so I start most of my garden indoors in late February/early March. This tray is mostly peppers, with a few kale, cabbage and other goodies that week go outside as … Continue reading →

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Transplanting Seedlings

Posted on March 24, 2023 by dep31

Planting seeds is lots of fun. “Oooo, I want lots of this this year, and we should have some of those…” Reality, however, first begins to rear its ugly head when the time comes to transplant seedlings into pots. One … Continue reading →

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Seedlings

Posted on March 22, 2023 by dep31

Wow! I leave town for three days, and things SPROUT! Time to get the pots ready!

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Starting my seeds

Posted on March 14, 2023 by dep31

I’m about two weeks later doing this than originally planned! Tonight, I got two trays of seeds started. Each tray can hold 6 rows of a dozen seed-starting pods apiece, so that’s 144 seeds planted… and I haven’t even gotten … Continue reading →

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Winter Salad

Posted on February 24, 2023 by dep31

Tonight’s dinner salad, just after harvesting it from the indoor garden!

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Winter Flower

Posted on March 27, 2022 by dep31

My viola flowered! I have now achieved another indoor seed-starting goal: I managed to bring a plant all the way to flowering indoors that I started from seed! Only four months later than I’d hoped, too. Now to see if … Continue reading →

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Indoor Greenhouse Learning Curve

Posted on October 30, 2021 by dep31

I was so excited to get my indoor growing system up and going in September! Last year, I got things going in my outdoor greenhouse weeks too late, and got maybe three salads from it all winter. The goal this … Continue reading →

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Seedling updates

Posted on February 27, 2021 by dep31

I went through all of my seedling trays today and reseeded the dozen or so that didn’t come up. There were a few, but not nearly as many as I’d expected, given that some of my seeds were more than … Continue reading →

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Taking it to the next level

Posted on February 23, 2021 by dep31

It’s now been a little over two weeks since I set up my “germination station” in the laundry room, and two things became swiftly apparent: My seedlings weren’t getting enough light, even with the grow lights that I was using. … Continue reading →

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