One Alaskans greenhouse

[Alasgun]

Oh yea; can’t forget my “Sea of Green” tomato patch!
in another week 18 of these will head to town for the Family Promise fund raiser. After which some of the stuff in the old bathroom can move over and stretch out for a week or two before the whole affair move’s into the greenhouse.
i can see my own cukes on the horizon now, probably another 6 weeks!

 

[heirloomgal]

Here’s a few flats showing promise of things to come.
1. Cinnamon girl and New england pie pumpkins.
2. Anise Hyssop
3. Darki parsley and Self Heal
4. Tango celery and Sweet Success Cucumbers.

These have proven themselves over the years, no surprises just reliable produce.

Absolutely gorgeous seedlings, so compact and a nice deep green colouring. You must have a really great light source to achieve that!

 

[Alasgun]

Thanks @heirloomgal, everything starts out under H.O T-5’s, 4 bulb fixtures. Each layer in my “tub garden” has a pair of these fixtures, so 4 total. Until the plants are 8 to 10 inches tall; the fixtures are within 5-6 inches of the canopy. As things grow i shift them around to keep everything symmetrical.
After a while, some of this stuff goes over to “the white house” and that lighting is a pair of Lush Dominators 2x. Some stuff dont care for the L.E.D’s but it’s nice to have both areas when things get tight.
Before too long it will all make the move to the greenhouse and that’s a happy couple days; getting it all set up.

At this time of year everything is fed my fermented rabbit urine (rabbit wine) one time a week and nothing else.

 

[Alasgun]

All winter the snow has slid off the eve over the outside bunnie cages and was nearly waist deep; causing me to have to stoop, to open the pens and give them fresh green branches. Today i chopped and shoveled my way thru all that and their ”court yard” is clear now.

The other shovel job today was from the front of the greenhouse up to and thru the gate then along the heads of the beds. With that opened up i now have a path to walk on to deliver buckets of rabbit poop to each one.

once that was done i was whipped so i spent 45 minutes in the greenhouse eating my daily fruit cup and enjoying the 90 degree temps.

 

[Alasgun]

It’s funny how anything that goes thru a rabbit instantly becomes fertilizer! Here are a few of my little fertilizer makers busily working away on some fresh Willow branches.

 

[meadow]

Bunny gold!

 

[Alasgun]

We are at the cross our fingers, tap our toes and hold our breath stage as things are getting a bit Jun-gleeeee in one of the start areas. By the first of next week it should open up a bit when the fund raiser tomatoes go away.

 

[Alasgun]

I had a good day in the greenhouse today! The new trellis twine is up over the pole beans and cukes, the fans are cleaned and in place, The previously applied amendments were raked level and the beds watered to my preferred saturation point to enliven the microbes! The soil temp surprised me at 55Deg so i trowled the beds to further smooth them and at this point am wondering “why wait”?
i’m hoping to populate the greenhouse this weekend and that will be the earliest start time for me. Daytime temps are over 80f in the greenhouse and with the toyo running now; the night time temps will stay above 55f.
like i said, why wait? Notice the snow still banked up along the sides!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

Do you make rabbit manure tea?

It’s funny how anything that goes thru a rabbit instantly becomes fertilizer! Here are a few of my little fertilizer makers busily working away on some fresh Willow branches.

 

[Alasgun]

@Cosmo spring garden, yes i do; somewhat different than most but tea none the less. My setup allows me to catch everything so i’ll place a lid on a bucket full of “stuff” and invert it over another bucket and slightly open one side; allowing the clean urine to drain into the bottom bucket. To a five gallon bucket of urine i add 1 cup of molasses, 1 cup of liquid kelp, 1 cup of em-1 (essential microbes) and 1 cup of oat flower; then the lid goes on and it ferments for a bit. Usually a week will do it and at that point it doesn’t have a bad smell and seems to keep forever.
i’m still using off of a couple gallons from last year and it’s still fine.
i mix it with water 50/50 and use it for everything. Typically i’ll use it once a week on the important stuff; Tomatos, cukes and beans And just whenever the mood strikes me for the rest of it. I generate enough to say ‘it’s an endless supply”. By fall; i’ll have several 5’s still setting around and have dumped an entire bucket on 2 cherry and an apple tree. This spring it was useful during the time i grew the starts.

online- there’s numerous articles from folks in south africa using it as a fertilizer (soil drench) a foliar feed and as an insecticide!
my only experience is as a soil drench but cant say enough good about it!

kind of long winded, but you asked!
Swing by some time; i’ll send you home with a gallon! im pretty liberal with this stuff.