It's starting to look like spring in the balcony greenhouse too... š
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And I sit here watching my Tomatoe seedlings sprout.
6+ weeks of frost left, and it snowed half a foot on Thursday and was 12c outside yesterday. Our springs donāt exist haha.
I remember your posts from last year. Our last frost date is spot on 5 weeks out, but for whatever reason our growing season seems quite a bit longer.
In either case, I started our tomato seedlings, along with basically everything else, about two weekends ago.
The siren song of a greenhouse around our beds is calling me, but that soundsā¦ expensive.
Well itās frustrating because you can absolutely plant stuff outside because itās warm enough, itās just a lot of effort with hoop houses or other stuff to protect it.
And even if itās warm enough, itāll snow a foot on May long crushing everything haha.
Iāve eyed just buying one, but Iām capable of designing and building one myself as well. Just health issues preventing it.
Now I did finally have my one carpal surgery 2 weeks ago! But the next is end of apr. So it wonāt be a large garden, but Iāll be able to hopefully plant stuff the end of May like Iām supposed to.
And hopefully get a greenhouse or two built for next season so I can actually hit it hard.
Well itās frustrating because you can absolutely plant stuff outside because itās warm enough, itās just a lot of effort with hoop houses or other stuff to protect it incase it does dip (it always does eventually).
100%, same here. It was 21 Ā°C / 70 Ā°F this weekend, but the low on Tuesday is -4.4 Ā°C / 24 Ā°F.
And even if itās warm enough, itāll snow a foot on May long crushing everything haha
Thankfully, we donāt really have to worry about snow this time of year and are very unlikely to get more than an inch.
Iām sorry to hear about your health!
Our garden area consists of four 1.2 m x 2.4 m / 4ā x 8ā beds with a 1.2m / 4ā pathway between the beds. I plant for things that climb and have a bed full of raspberries. Hoops donāt seem that practical unless I paid a lot more attention to seed starting time. Even then, a fuke frost would kill my cukes, squash, peas, beans, etc :( A big enough greenhouse to cover the four beds seems like it would be expensiveā¦
Most of the snow is light/small, but there the risk, usually happens every second year, but climate change is exacerbating stuff as we all know.
Iām just glad to be getting it done, long time waiting.
Iāve got similar, Iāve got 2 - 4x12ā beds with 2ā between them, so to make one single greenhouse large enough makes it too large and would need permits and property tax ramifications. My plan would be to make a 4x12 greenhouse which would make those two beds down to 4x8. I would also maybe put another greenhouse down by the fence so it gets the morning light an evening shade. The two garden beds are on the west of the house, so doesnāt get sun till noon.
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