No, none for now. I am excited for you and your family to get into this. Growing veggies in Pots usually means less production. Heavy feeding and watering with good drainage. Did you know you can buy a bag of garden soil, poke some drain holes on one side, turn it over and cut a X . Then transplant into it tomatoes, peppers, greens etc. (even potatoes) No pots and clean up is a breeze. Having a greenhouse next door should be a wealth of information also. Will be anxious to see pics. here are a few from 2 years ago:
We got the second coat of paint on the frame today and had to get creative about the shade as it was hot!
I started the walls on the front and back too using of course pallet slats... Saves I might PM you later with some questions!
Could I use 5 gallon buckets like this to plant? http://www.homedepot.com/p/Homer-Bucket-5-gal-Orange-Bucket-05GLHD2/100087613
We went to a couple nurseries yesterday, and at the 2nd one, the guy had double layered 6mil plastic on his greenhouses, with a blower blowing (what else would it do?) air between the 2 layers. Was pretty cool. He said they keep those going year-round. He also had a water heater to give the young plants warm water. Interesting. Oh, he also told me the plastic is rated for 5 years, but it looked almost brand new to me. They put it up 4 years ago.
Those and the ones at Walmart and HD are the ones I use. Be sure to drill at least four one inch holes in the bottom for drainage. The put some corse material like broken clay pots over the holes. If growing tomatoes in them. Set tomatoes in them when the pot is half full(one plant) then after the tomato has grown above the pot fill within an inch of the top with rich humus and potting soil. Your tomato will develop roots all the way up the buried stem and will improve your production. You can put put cheap bamboo sticks and use zip ties to secure the plant as it grows up. You can find these hints and more on youtube. By the way, avoid spraying your tomatoes, water from the bottom and avoid splash. Tomatoes easily get diseased by getting wet and splash up from the ground. One interesting thing you can try is hanging that pail up and growing tomato out one of the holes in the bottom. Best with cheery tomatoes. Works, but to me that is more of a fun thing.
Won't be so impressive this year. Busted knee is putting a big hurt on my plans. I'm counting on folks like you to post some impressive pics of their garden efforts. I'll put in a few things but don't know how well I'll keep up with them. I do a lot of vertical stuff like pole beans and cukes on fences. Last year a woodchuck cleaned me out. Smokey is successful in cleaning them out of his garden. I'm going to try. Bogydave is another member who has a lot of garden and small greenhouse sucess. His garden is outstanding.
I am going to have to hit up Dave then for advice. I knew he garden but I wasn't aware he had a greenhouse too.. Today I got the front wall finished and man does that take some math for the angles. It turned out nice! We found some stain for cheap at Home Depot and put a test strip on to see what we think. I'm not overly impressed but when it dried it looked decent and you can still see the wood grain so we may go with it yet. I didn't put the slats tight to each other so it would still allow some air flow but not enough to really effect it in the colder months and for the colder months I have pink non foam board to shove in behind the wall as well to try and insulate some what. My next task is to figure out how to run a water line to it later this summer so the hose can be left inside the greenhouse and not 70' away.
Pete, what kind of prevention do you have in mind to keep the base from having direct contact with the soil for rot protection?
The bottom of the greenhouse ground contact boards of the greenhouse are made from treated lumber so its not setting directly in the mud. I have also painted the whole base with 3 heavy coats of barn and fence enamel which is oil based and in my experience bullet proof.
Today we made a lot of progress! I still need to trim the front out, make the front door, properly lay out the front garden beds and finish the fence but….. View attachment 19986
O boy we get to go next week and buy the plants... I'm probably going to hit Hammond landscape and buy soil premixed just because it's good stuff and cheap. Green beans, peas, strawberries, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, lots of herbs including onion chives and garlic chives, squash, asparagus, lettuce and I'm sure other stuff. The inside of the greenhouse will be with 5 gallon pales and the beds outside will have the peas, asparagus and beans.
Thats looking great Pete I might have missed it but what did you use for the plastic wrap and wear did you get it? Also how thick is it? Im in the market for some heavy duty clear plastic for my solar kilns.