Texas Gardening: December in my greenhouse, 1 by Gypsi

Gypsi wrote:
My greenhouse project is coming along fairly well. I have a mouse or rat in there with a taste for seedlings and the phlox plants I snagged at discount from Ace Hardware. I have a rat trap under a flowerpot baited with peanut butter, hope to go out there in a few and find it occupied.

I started a tomato plant from a cutting that did actually root and now has a few spider mites. My dogs watched me spray it with water from my spray bottle and wondered what that plant did wrong.

My stuff from fall RU is all alive except the frostweed, I think it does not care to be transplanted.
My geraniums are cheerful and the discounted petunias from Lowes were fine til I set them on an a tray with water in it and gave a couple root rot. Transplanted to a wide bowl pot last night.

Have a solar pool blanket wrapped around it (mine is a leaky greenhouse aka well ventilated on the south side of my house) and a temp humidity guage in it. When it gets too cold I run a load of clothes through my dryer, get the laundry done and heat the greenhouse all at once

The 100 gallon stock tank has baby goldfish in it now. Couldn't keep it warm enough for tilapia. It is a heat sink and plant fertilizer all in one.


This message was edited Dec 17, 2014 9:33 AM