Ok Russ, we've got the light and track in place. Also the buckets. Maybe this afternoon I will get down and take a picture of our set up. My daughter has been bugging me for one. But, I am going to have to start new plants. The ones I have going are just sitting there doing nothing.
Jeanette
Straw Bale Gardening (part 18) - General Discussion
I think I may have to get more heat to my three pots. Nothing has poked through the surface yet. I know I will at least have to get a couple more bulbs for the fluorescent lamp as all I have are just the soft lite.
I have been thinking about one of those day-lite halogen lamps. I will check them out a little more before getting one though.
We were down for our coffee & BS time, Gary was saying that those cardboard tomatoes with the very tough skin, are selling for $3.00 a pound. I am definitely going to have to get things together and get the covering on the greenhouse. I'm already calling it a greenhouse. Although it was purchased as a Storage shed. First winter the tarp covering tore to shreds. It has just been a metal frame work since.
It don't look like, I will have to help Gary set up a bale garden this spring. He has decided he really don't have time. Well that in it's self should give me more time for my own. I won't repeat it to him But he is like a little kid. He gets a big idea, then loses interest very quickly. That's ok maybe he will buy some tomatoes from me. That is if I can get it set up to where I can grow some all year.
I have a picture in my head of the principal of the track light. but I will be waiting for the picture.
Well yesterday started out at 0 degrees F was very slow at warming up. By 3:30 it did finally get up to 16 degrees. I really didn't plan on doing anything. However Gary wanted some ice scraped from the parking and along the one side set of doors. I first had to change hydraulic filter on the skid loader and that meant a trip to town. By the time I got the loader running and the ice broke loose and shoved across the street, it was starting to get dark. But I was happy to get every thing taken care of. Now today started out a little more like normal. 24 degrees. It's not going to warm up much more than it is now I'm reading 27 F and it is going toward 2:30 already.
And here I am talking about gardening Ha Ha.
I misquoted the other day when I said we would get what they called arctic express, It is arctic clipper. And it usually follows the the path of the jet stream when it dips down in the mid section of the US. That almost makes a person feel like they are in Barrow AK. :>(
Oh well gardening is much more plesant to talk about.
Well we were spared the big storm. It went south of us and we only got about 3/4" of snow. Nothing like what went through OK. KS.MO.and parts of NE and Southern IA.
After we get settled back in after Christmas, I plan to go out to the farm where I got the bales last year and get some more of the dry horse poo, off of the floor of the barn. If we have snow at that time I will just spread it on top. I will also be going after more bales, for that one end of the garden.
This time - - -only one row, or at least have them further apart. I plan to have the big beef and the giant beef in the bales. maybe even one mule team. See if they will do better than they did last year in dirt. LOL
Well stay warm, get a good seed catalog, set back in the E-Z chair. and plan. Or is that Dream.
Russ