jjannie's 2020 gardening

[MrsJ]

color me jelly and forgive me for coveting your goods
 that's a real nice greenhouse
and im gonna try some straw bail stuffs next season
Weve been on our spread 8 years now and its an everloving, evergrowing labor of luvs
and were always experimenting improving, failing and harvesting
The old man (my grandfather) installed a passion for for piscatorial pursuits and the gyo, shape your grounds and tend to them ethic
and these are the things that keep me grounded and happy
thanks for the link here ill try and start a thread share our work
but I need to get after my
#buildthewall

project

Looks like your making nice progress. We have lot rock walls and back yard pond is framed with them. Some of our larger rocks are over 7ft - luckily they were placed by machinery. 

Is that rhubarb I see in foreground? What did you plant in front of rock wall where the drip line is running?

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Your greenhouse looks wonderful.  I'm jealous, I've always wanted one, but thought it would be a lot of work to keep up with air circulation and temperature regulation.  So, I just have a large garden where I fight the weeds, birds and bugs.  It's great therapy for me to get outside and work in any garden, flowers, or vegies.  I live in Payson, Utah, where the temperatures are somewhat warmer than Idaho.

 We've pretty much changed over to almost all raised beds of some sort - easier on our knees and backs. Our greenhouse is only 10X12 Harbor freight one. After watching a lot of videos on them, we've added a lot of structural support inside it, put 4 auto window openers on the roof, we have a Wi-Fi outlet that will operate based on temperatures for cooling or for heating. So far, we're only heating enough to keep things from freezing. Once it has safely warmed up we keep our sliding doors opened.  We had to place some deer fencing we framed up in the open doorway to keep the cats out (didn't want them sunning themselves on our young seedlings or using our nicer dirt as a litter box). We just lift it little and slide it out of the way to enter, so it works pretty well.  So far that has been enough air flow to not overheat the plants but once our temps get closer to 100 we may need to plug in an oscillating fan to cooling side of the outlet, it won't really cool it, but it may help blow the hotter air out faster. Also moving air helps increase pollination. 

That's a nice cart of produce in that picture - please tell me that was from last fall.  We love where we live, even though it isn't the easiest for back yard gardening, we make do but we don't thrive doing it, but we just keep trying.  Its almost for a challenge more than anything else.

This picture was taken the first year I had my garden here in Payson fall of 2002.  Before my hair turned white.  I still garden in the same place, but I do rotate where I plant my different vegies.  I usually have a good crop to harvest each year.