jjannie's 2021 Garden

[jjannie]

That was a cold night last night, forecast was 34 degrees but we got down to 29 here at our house - sure glad we had stuff covered up.  Still need to go out check on stuff surviving those low temps hopefully they'll be ok. The GH will have been just fine.

Update   stuff didn't do as well as we hoped for - lost the tomatoes in the 'pots', the rest of the 'pots' don't look very happy but we hope they'll pull through ok, the covered peppers and eggplants - the ones under the plastic bottles still look great, the ones under the white covers hopefully they'll pull thru although they don't look very happy. Quite the set back after babying those seed, then seedlings, then young plants. The GH recorded a low of 33.4 (no heater running) and everything did just fine in there. 

Guess that's gardening, try and try again - kind of just like fishing Willard - LOL

Jill, I'm a little late discovering this board, but I have an idea for your green house in case it gets cold again... I'm using one of those chick warming lights from CalRanch in my greenhouse, I think it's 500 watts and a red light bulb... Anyway it is keeping my greenhouse in the 40's when it's down to 28 outside at night... I just turn it on at night for the cold nights and it has been keeping things alive and well...(guess I'll find out how much it's costing when I get the next bill..) I think my wife is going to try planting some stuff outside today, at least taking her planters out.... I hope the cold will let up soon... We have only planted 6 rows or so in the garden this year, I need to get busy and get the carrots and spinach in... kind of missed the boat on those two... Other than that I'm not quite ready to plant beans and the tender plants just yet...  I did get some corn in, but I figure I can replant that if it freezes... Plus I'll plant some other varieties later to extend my corn season a bit... Anyway good luck later Jeff

 Glad you've found us here! We do have a thermostatically controlled outlet that would run the heater if we have it in the 'On' mode which we had not set for the year.  We were surprised that even the covered things did not do very well once we got into those high 20s. But it also has a high temp setting that turns on an oscillating fan to help circulate the air. The GH has auto openers on the roof windows that lets the heat escape, the air movement also seemed to help improve pollination. We've used a watt meter to determine how many things we can run off that outlet while keeping our power usage down. Our GH is 10x12 Harbor Freight and we picked up a NIB one as well that will allow us to make an 8ft addition ( no space for the full 12ft)  on it and then we'll have spare panels in case we ever needed to replace one. Inly issue with NIB GH  has been the panels were home to those leaf cutting wasps/bees who thought the channels made them an apartment complex. Tedious work removing their construction but we're almost done. 

We're doing all our outside replanting/reseeding and planting up our flower pots as well this weekend.