DJ54
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- Joined
- Jan 20, 2009
- Messages
- 4,238
- Location
- Carroll, Ohio
- Tractor
- IH Farmall 656 gas/ IH 240 Utility/ 2, Super C Farmalls/ 2, Farmall A's/ Farmall BN/McCormick-Deering OS-6/McCormick-Deering O-4/ '36 Farmall F-12/ 480 Case hoe. '65 Ford 2000 3 cyl., 4 spd. w/3 spd Aux. Trans
I hope you have a way to vent it more than the entry door. It's amazing the amount of heat you can get in there on a sunny day in the 50's. Even my little one gets pretty toasty and definitely have to watch when it gets into the 70's. I have to slide the windows open by 10:30 to keep temps in the 80's. Learned my lesson the first year when I got ties up on the landline and didn't get to it until around noon. By then it was 110º in there and killed all of the seedlings and had to start over. I know open them when I'm done with chores earlier in the morning.
Got new seeds ordered and should be here by early next week. Won't really be starting anything until later in the week. That will make 8 weeks until my target date of approx. May 1 to set transplants. I was reminded a couple weeks ago of an old saying about hearing thunder in Feb., you'll get a frost the same date in May. So that would make one the 3rd week of April. Probably get by with cabbage, peas and other cool weather items, but the rest will stay in the greenhouse, just have to pay attention to the long range forecasts.
Really looking forward to trying the Beet transplants. Don't care for them but grow them for some friends to put up. Hoping it works well to make them a little less work intensive. Tough to tell which is weeds and which are Beets coming up for the first 10-14 days. Plus the thinning. Should be easier to thin in trays and going to see if I can put the thinning's in other trays to save starting more. Will also leave enough room to hill them with the hillers on the Farmall 130 or 140 to save a lot of handwork. Need to order more Peppermint extract to keep the Deer from eating on most plants.
Got new seeds ordered and should be here by early next week. Won't really be starting anything until later in the week. That will make 8 weeks until my target date of approx. May 1 to set transplants. I was reminded a couple weeks ago of an old saying about hearing thunder in Feb., you'll get a frost the same date in May. So that would make one the 3rd week of April. Probably get by with cabbage, peas and other cool weather items, but the rest will stay in the greenhouse, just have to pay attention to the long range forecasts.
Really looking forward to trying the Beet transplants. Don't care for them but grow them for some friends to put up. Hoping it works well to make them a little less work intensive. Tough to tell which is weeds and which are Beets coming up for the first 10-14 days. Plus the thinning. Should be easier to thin in trays and going to see if I can put the thinning's in other trays to save starting more. Will also leave enough room to hill them with the hillers on the Farmall 130 or 140 to save a lot of handwork. Need to order more Peppermint extract to keep the Deer from eating on most plants.