So, after getting overly optimistic and losing my tomato and pepper plants, I ended up waiting until Memorial Day weekend to plant the greenhouse. The beds and some of the pots I did from seed, but with a very short growing season here, I went with good-sized plants for tomatoes and peppers. Here’s how it looked last Friday.
(I’m sorry. The photos got lost in the internet abyss. I cannot find the originals to upload again.)
There are tomatoes (2 big plants and 1 small one) toward the back of the top shelf. Next come 2 kinds of pepper plants (yellow and pointy, then green bells). Don’t you love when I use horticulture speak? The small pot holds rosemary, then the flatter pot is my second attempt at parsley (which is like a darn weed, but is having trouble sprouting this year … more on that below).
On the lower shelf, from back to front, you can see a cactus and a mum plant, then some arugula that’s gone to seed, and a big pot of basil that’s doing well.
On the ground, toward the back, we have peas and beans, acorn squash, zucchini, and pumpkins. I also have a small rhubarb plant in a big pot, but you can’t see it from this angle.
In the lower bed, from back to front, I put in carrots, radishes, and beets. I’m a little worried about how leggy the plants are getting, but Tom assures me they are fine. I’ll have to thin them soon.
The upper bed, however, is giving me fits. At the back is more arugula, which is doing fine, but the lettuce in the middle did not come up except for a couple spots. And, the parsley didn’t come up at all. I don’t know why. There’s also another small pumpkin plant in a pot that Tom’s mom sent home last week.
So, I would like to fill in the top bed with something, but I don’t know what.
So far, we haven’t picked anything yet, except for some baby arugula for snacking and some basil that I used in a sauce last week. But, there are flower buds on some of the squash, so I have hopes we’ll see some produce in the next couple weeks.
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