This weekend started the annual clean-up of the greenhouse. Everything in there that might be rain-sensitive was put in the wheelbarrow and stored in the shed. Everything else was piled up in the yard. All the shelves and heat mats were taken out. Even the bricks on the floor were taken out.
The inside raised bed was something of a failure. The tomatoes were planted as upside down tomatoes last week and they can be brought inside of the greenhouse and hung from the rafters so the raised beds won’t be needed. They will be covered with plywood and more benches will be built along that wall with concrete blocks and boards. They will be very temporary in case it doesn’t work well. The floor will be smoothed and re-bricked. The shelves will be repainted and re-installed with more support on the long ones. The lights will be re-hung.
All of the pots and flats will be sterilized and brought back ready to plant. The heat mats will be on the window side of the greenhouse. The new benches will be used to mist the plants with water instead of bottom watering. The last two years the greenhouse has been a failure. I think the bottom watering is the problem.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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