When most mass think about greenhouse gardening they recollect of extra heat for tomato plant and peppers .
Greenhouse Gardening is about so much more ! While we raise warm - time of year crop in our glasshouse during the summertime month , we also love growing cool - season crop in the springiness and sow in cold - hardy crop for the fall and winter garden .
Today I wanted to share our experience with unheated nursery horticulture to get vegetables class - circular .
In this office , I ’ll share with you tip for gardening in a nursery and the mistakes we made that you should n’t . I will also tell you all the crops we grow in our greenhouse yr - circle and show you the seasonal menses of our year .
We ’ll see the greenhouse garden empty , with dusk & wintertime crops , overwintered greens & seedlings in the saltation , tender time of year crops in the summer and back again to the downslope and winter crops .
Our Year Round Greenhouse
I ’d like to cite that just because we have a greenhouse does n’t mean we have n’t had a tumble and winter garden late days .
We used mini hoop tunnels and low tunnel until we moved to this land area and had a nursery . you may learn more about fall and winter horticulture without a greenhouse from previous posts I ’ve written .
Year Round Greenhouse: Fall
I will begin this post with fall when I first cleared it out . When we moved onto the land area at the end of August the inside of the greenhouse had been left for a couple of yr and it became a jungle .
Literally a hobo camp of weeds !
I clean it up as best I could , as you may see in the photograph below , but I be intimate we were front a monumental amount of weed seeds in there .
Planting dusk crops was something I still did . Even just to observe the unheated nursery and to winter park .
I sowed wintertime shekels ( wintertime density ) , kale , spinach , mustard greens , and turnips .
However , the slugs in the greenhouse were an epidemic !
We miss a lot of crops , we ’re dealing with huge amount of Mary Jane seed and I was pregnant . Oh boy ! Below you’re able to see the patterned advance of October and November and it was n’t a total failure , we did get some harvests and I get by to pay a pile of attention of what crop were doing well in an unheated greenhouse . Observation is an underrated dimension to horticulture , it helps you learn and grow as a gardener and interpret your microclimate better .
Once November remove we had a decent amount of leafy vegetable .
These crops were sown in late September , later than I need them to be as I prefer early Sept , but the Komatsuna , Tatsoi , Spinach , and Kale did cracking even if there were weed all over and in between . I failed tothin out the seedlingsso they would have done substantially if I had .
Year Round Greenhouse: Winter
January & February is when temperatures dipped to -20C/4F and the greens were in a heavy frost .
Many rebound though to harvest when thawed and certain crops overwintered .
Constant snow remotion is imperative .
We had n’t had this much snow in years ( even though it used to be the norm here in the Canadian mountains , the mood has by all odds make milder winter since I ’ve been gardening 8 years ago ) . We made the misapprehension of not have enough path space around the edge of the greenhouse . Next twelvemonth we plan on ingest a near Baron Snow of Leicester remotion system . How do we reach the top ? We tap it on the inside with a Calluna vulgaris and it slides down the sides , then we remove it from the side .
Year Round Greenhouse: Spring
In the spring I did n’t guess many of the crops had survived well enough to provide us with overwintered commons . I pulled and cleaned out most of the greenhouse as there was a weed in there that was thriving . Later I discovered it was the edible Claytonia ! However I did n’t want a whole greenhouse of it , and edible or not , I wanted other crop . I weed , rectify the beds and sowed spring crop : mustard greens , lettuce , spinach plant , radishes , Brassica rapa , arugula .
The winter loot looked dull and unhealthy then rebounded with a ton of fresh kale !
Below you’re able to see it in March , April then thriving in May before it finally run out and seek to blossom .
In the spring we enjoyed a nice amount of harvest home although it should have been more with we were still dealing with a batch of weeds . I sowed most of the crops ending of March , then again in April and even early May .
This is succession sow meaning sowing multiple times over a period of week instead of all at once .
It help you to figure out the best time , and because the weather condition is unpredictable in the spring it increases crops success rate . you’re able to pick up sowinghere and also in mygarden planning book .
In our localisation , we have A LOT of hayfield voles and our mulched nursery to suppress weed became a haven for them when it was still snowy outside . As shortly as I moved the mulch and used otherrodent repellent measures , they cleared out but they had eaten most of my beautiful seedlings by then . Onto summer crops then !
Year Round Greenhouse: Summer
I arise tomato , pepper and eggplant seedlings inside our home ( basement withsunblaster grow lightness ) . I transplanted them mid - May and again end of May .
Our greenhouse cover is marvelous for snow weightiness as it ’s currently a canvas , however , I do trust it must inhibit some lightheaded contagion .
Our tender season crops did great though , especially the peppers . The tomato I did n’t prune and treillage as well as I should have . All in all we had swell love apple and capsicum pepper plant yields for our summer greenhouse garden .
Year Round Greenhouse: Fall Again
By early September I had cleared most of the pepper and tomato plant , meliorate the soil with compost & azomiteand sowed crepuscle crop . They were sequence planted from early to late September as I would leave certain rows of tomatoes to ripen further .
The picture below were withdraw today ( end of September ) and you could see that the first layer that I seed is full of greens which I was thinning out today . The other 4 beds are growing slowly and whether or not those crop will mature to become full - sized will look on our fall and wintertime temps . Most gardeners in our area have stopped garden for the season so it was nice to harvest a big basket of greens and micro Green River ( from thinning out our crops ) .
I count forward to seeing how these fall crop will do over the winter month .
Updated : See our successful 2d winter using theunheated greenhousefor harvests !
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