Greenhouse and Garden

The husband worked on wiring some lighting into the greenhouse last week. I am getting ready to plant seeds, so yesterday morning, I went out to see what he did.

There are overhead lights:

Lights along the side:

And a couple of shorter lighted areas (with shelves!) over the workbenches:

It’s lovely to have the extra light in there.

Our weather forecast was way off. We did not get the heat that came up from the southwest because it stayed east of the mountains. The rain has continued all week. I need to photograph a quilt and I’d like to do that outside, but not until things dry out a bit. I mixed up potting soil, sand, and perlite yesterday and filled half a dozen trays of pots but that was as far as I got. I also went through my collection of seeds and wondered who ordered so many . . .

I am going to trial some of these weed barriers this year to see what I think. These are sold by Gardtree and I can get them on Amazon in various configurations:

The black plastic does a good job in areas where I don’t mind things spreading out, like the melons and cukes, but I’d like something for the areas where I plant in rows, like peppers and cabbages. Those spots in the garden always end up being pain points because the weeds are just relentless.

I also tidied up three of the raised beds in the herb garden and sprinkled some lettuce seeds in one of them. If it’s going to be warm(ish) and rainy, we might as well get started on the spring lettuce crop.

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I haven’t felt much like sewing this week and I am not pushing it. I went through my patterns yesterday afternoon and pulled out some warmer-weather ones, including some for dresses that I still desperately need but never seem to be able to get made.