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Oooh, oooh, oooh…

Well, here they have finished the base and are putting it in and making sure that it’s all level. (Remember, I dug out the 4 inches of grass X 9 feet in the front — SEE? See my hard digging work? I know they were talking about my red floral rubber garden boots behind my back!)
There’s the frame, just sitting in the yard assembled and waiting to be placed on the wooden base for support.
Here’s where I got it. So far, so good! They’ll be back tomorrow to install all the glass panels.

Then comes German, the sprinkler guru to put a station in the bed that goes around one side of the greenhouse and put a faucet inside of it and the electrician to set up the power for the fan and the heater plugs.

Then pea gravel and soil/mulch for the beds on Friday or Monday. Then I have to figure out what to do with the bed.

I wasn’t planning on doing it until the Spring, but I would have to pay twice to have people come out here for the bed and the sprinklers so I figured I’d get it set up now and just think about it. I really want a cutting garden in there somewhere, and that’s not happening right now, though I can plant some seeds soon.

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:45:06-05:00November 4th, 2008|Blog, greenhouse, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

Greenhouse prep!

Yesterday I had help digging out for the new green house and for the bed that will run along side it and beyond.
All ready to go.

Well, not quite. I measured wrong and just came in from digging out another trench of grass 4 inches by 9 feet. Ugh. I’m sure the green house guys thought I was a signt, in my red flowered boots, grunting and digging!

They are assembling the frame now. Once they get the base in, I’m gonna run out and take a few more pictures!

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:45:06-05:00November 4th, 2008|Blog, greenhouse, Sharing Nature's Garden|9 Comments

Spring cleaning…

Ok, so it’s not Spring, but with evening temps at 59 and daytime highs at 85, it feels like Spring.

So my DH and I worked on the ugly side of gardening this weekend – storage of all the “stuff” required to garden. My DH moved things around so that my garden storage cabinet (a 20-year old dresser from my son’s room) was actually accessible and we cleaned it out and I put lots of things away – soil, compost, gloves, trowels, pruners, you name it…lots of my tools found a home.

This is where they were, out in the open and messy. My goal is to move all of this into a cabinet and clear this space.

Buckets and piles and wagonloads of stuff…STUFF everywhere! And it seems to multiply, kind of like paperclips…

Or, maybe it’s just me…

I’m just not gonna go there. But, the greenhouse comes tomorrow and some things will need to be in there, so I’m hoping I can clean it up and spread it out and make it all look a little better for a little while. (I’m a binge and purge kind of garage cleaner!)

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:45:06-05:00November 3rd, 2008|Blog, cleaning, garage, Sharing Nature's Garden, tools|0 Comments

Seed starting survey …

Mmmhuuuwaaaaaa!

This is my seed skeleton! No, seriously, this is the sizable stack of seed sachets, some opened, some closed, but all … well … old.

So, thus my subsequent question…how long do seeds keep? I’ve done trial and error before, and since I am inherently seed-challenged, I’d rather improve my odds by using only those MOST likely to actually sprout.

** Share your expertise with me, my blogging friends — should I toss or keep my seeds?

** Is there a difference in the staying power of wildflower, vegetable or flower seeds?

Isn’t this cute? I give inspirational credit to Frances of Faire Garden, Annie of The Transplantable Rose and Carol of May Dreams Gardens for all their little garden fairy references.

So, I took my 5-year old by the hand on Saturday and we went into the woods to collect little rocks to build a fairy house in our garden. This is our little house, complete with rock door. We’ll keep adding to it as we’re inspired. Guess we should name it, too…

And, here, she is — speaking of the Fairy House-builder! Going haunting as a puppy with her Daddy, who was a mailman with torn pants! Their costumes were so easy to make and I loved that she didn’t want to be anyone or thing that was commercial or required a crown!

I leave you with one final Fall image — this beautiful, lush mum that I bought for decoration for our neighborhood Halloween Potluck for 45 at our house Friday night.

By Diana C. Kirby|2017-11-29T23:27:51-06:00November 2nd, 2008|Blog, Halloween, mums, seeds, Sharing Nature's Garden|16 Comments

Mmmmmm…’maters!

Yumm-O as Rachel Ray would say! Tomatoes are a’comin’ on the vine. These cooler evening temps helped the blooms set and now they are growing like mad, hoping to beat the first frost. Here that’s normally not until early December, but we’ve had unseasonably cold temps at night this week – into the 40s at my house, so they’d better grow quickly!
They are pretty tasty — not quite as sweet as last year’s but we are enjoying them.

See that little clump of green near the middle of the photo? That is the LAST of the Malabar spinach — my DH and I cut off all the vines threatening to take over our garden and our house. We fed them to the appreciative deer and they will get that last clump tonight for dinner. Then it will be done! Whew!