The Greenhouse is almost finished. I should qualify that statement just a bit. What this actually means is that it is as finished as it is likely going to get. We have a long list of projects that are "almost finished" but will not be "completely finished" until such time as a "for sale" sign goes up in the front yard. (This actually happened in the third house we owned....brand new completely finished bathroom, used once on the final day that we moved out of the house). As such, in its almost finished state, the green house is one of my new favorite places to hang out - I sneak down there when the kids are driving me crazy and hang out in bright sun and warm temperatures. It is like a small trip to the Bahamas when the weather turns chilly.
Currently, I don't have much growing, because I am slowly experimenting to see what crops might like living in this semi-controlled, tundra-to-tropics climate the best. I say semi-controlled because the temperature fluctuates wildly from 34 degrees to 120 degrees sometimes on a daily basis....this is not to every plant's liking. So far, however, the tomato plants seen to have taken to it well as they have sprouted and started adding leaves....just what I need....more tomatoes.
There is a fan to be installed soon to help reduce the extreme heat and currently there is a kerosene heater that keeps it from freezing, but it may be a challenge to fully heat that big building when the weather really gets serious about being cold. If I can get the lettuce that has recently sprouted to grow until Christmas and then start spring plantings in there in February, it will have been a great success for the first year.
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