My Garden 2013: Starting In My New Greenhouse

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Update 4/4/2013: This blog post was merged to "Daddykirbs Farm Blog". Please reset your bookmarks so you don't miss any super exciting updates to my garden and orchard!

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I am very excited for this years garden! I have a greenhouse! This is the first greenhouse I've ever owned. It's not very big, but it should give me a nice place start my seeds and over winter some of the plants. My small Lemon tree will appreciate that.

These Harbor Freight deals can be pretty good. This greenhouse was on sale for $299 and they allowed me to use another 20% coupon on top of that. I was going to build my own greenhouse from scratch, but the cost savings here changed my mind.

This was from my garden last year. I have dreams
of greater success this year. My greenhouse is
bolstering my confidence! :)

Best of all, now that I have it I can SAVE MONEY! I used to buy all my plants for the garden, but now I can start from seeds. Plants can cost $4 each. A seed packet is usually around $1. Each seed packet can start 50 plants or more.

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: Framing the Short Wall

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse

In this video you will probably notice that I can hardly contain myself :) I feel like a little kid with a new club ouse or something. Only here... I am inviting you into my club, not keeping you out! LOL.

After my introduction I have a series of video clips that show how the greenhouse went together. I don't think you should use this as a stand alone "how-to", but it might assist you in the process of building.

I wanted to share with you how I started my tomato seeds in the greenhouse too. I really don't know what I'm doing so forgive my mess! This video shows that process.

Most of my tomato seeds this year were purchased from +Gary Pilarchik at The Rusted Garden.
You won't find a nicer guy to buy seeds from ;) He specializes in heirloom tomatoes.  I chose to use the heirloom tomatoes this year because I'd like to learn how to save seeds for myself. By the way, Gary has videos on his blog about how to do that.

After the building and planting and the time it takes me to get a blog post up... here is an example of a little tomato seed that decided to love me back.

daddykirbs Garden Blog: Tomato Seed Sprouting

My little girl wanted to join in on the fun so she started one of the black sunflower seeds from the bag of chicken scratch. She grew some last year too :)

daddykirbs Garden Blog: Sunflower Seed Sprouting

We started a row of these in the raised beds too. We read that Sunflowers make Cucumbers taste better so we will start the Cucumbers near these.

I loved in elementary school when we got to start Sweet Potatoes in little cups! I decided to try it again here in the greenhouse.  These are holdovers from the very few that I grew last year. These will be planted in the Hugel Beds up by the Orchard.

Here are a handful more of the construction photos.

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: My Helper :)

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: Constructing the Short Wall

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: Constructing the Short Wall

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: Framing Done

Update:

Looks like I didn't fail completely :) Almost all of the seeds have sprouted.

Daddykirbs Garden Greenhouse: Beautiful Tomato Sprouts

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