Prep Day (4 April 2010) and Day 1 - Organizing the Roof (16 May 2010)

I began unpacking the roof yesterday. Locating and putting together the 3-shelves for the Greenhouse was easy but now where is the plastic zip cover? ... somewhere safe so it doesn't get cracked from winter temperatures (UGH). Next year it will go into this storage box which kept everything perfectly sealed. Ok I might insulate the cover with something and seal it in a plastic bag just in case ... if I ever find it ...

These 3 shelves hardened off most of my plants last year.


This big blue-green box held all the 3-shelf greenhouse poles and kept them dry as a bone all winter (and there's still room left over in it to hold an insulated bag with the zip plastic cover ... if I ever find it again) ...



Big Greenhouse Poles (now I just have to figure out how to put them together) ... without a diagram ... without any idea of what it is supposed to look like ... without remembering the dimensions of the thing (I think it's 6 feet by something and I think I might have a half a clue as to how to do it ... but that's it - just about a half a clue and I'm a little scared because if I remember some of my high school math there could be at least a bazillion ways with this many pieces and it's not now just limited to half a bazillion just because I might have a half a clue ... optimum word being 'might' and I think things take off exponentially at some point and move into infinity which I won't be enjoying much and the plants will all probably die waiting for their hardening off house so it could all be for want of naught and I'll have to keep dragging them in and out for 10 days ... although I am eyeing the two big beige boxes that are empty as a place to keep them overnight if the temperatures drop) hmmm (see one of them below)



I needed to tear a quarter of the tightly packed garage apart to get the Big Greenhouse up on the roof. It and the plastic cover (insulated and in a bag to keep it dry just in case of leakage) will find it's home in one of the two Large Beige (until now empty) storage boxes along the south wall come Fall 2010. I was felt so good that when I bought them and they fit within inches of the space allocated for them I forgot to actually use them. Nevermind! This year I will also use them to hold the large water tube I bought from Lees to water plants when I go away.

THIS POST IS FROM gardenbre3 - Prep Day on the Roof (4 April 2010)

Today I got outside onto the roof after watching 5 hours of the Ten Commandments - intermittently - and planted a big pot of two types of arugula, a pot of nasturtiums and spinach and a pot of mixed lettuces I picked up in Whole Foods in Portland last year.

The chives are up and the sage looks like it's come back bigger and better than ever

   

(and I think I have some big onions)!

I think my strawberry plant looks ok.  In the pot on the right, I planted some Renee's Electric Blue Sweet Peas I just got at Fiesta Farm Nursery yesterday.

Oh - and I potted up a little 6-pak of Thai Basil as well - I don't know what happened to my Lemon Basil that I thought I bought ... looks like maybe I'll have to go back for that tomorrow ... and maybe I'll buy the monkey (hook)!