jjannie's greenhouse addition - 2021

[jjannie]

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Looks great Jil, you and Jeff do great work, should be really nice once you are finished. Do you still have anything growing in your GH? I know my outside garden beds got a heavy dose of frost a few days ago. I'll have to post about it on my garden thread.

Tomatoes, some bell peppers are still ripening up but the cukes and pole beans are pretty spent. We need to get these leaves up before today's rains wet them once again. This will be 3rd time of doing this as leaves keep falling  - we keep hoping for good wind to remove them so this job can just be over - hahaha.

We are just now getting some leaves from our neighbors trees but I read an article about the benefits of just leaving the leaves on the lawns during the Winter. I guess the nutrients from the leaves leach out during the Winter, then is Spring the leaves can be rakes up. If I run across the article again, I'll send it to you but basically it means you use less fertilizer on your lawn during the Summer.

I agree with leaving some, but we had so many it would be more of weed or grass barrier, killing anything underneath them. Now with this breeze starting up ahead of the front that more and more are still dropping. We use mulching blower vac - so by vacuuming them up its also mulching them and it goes right into a trash can so once filled (its about 10 bags of un-mulched fit in one can). We'll till them along with some soil, utelite and our compost and use this mixture in the beds (once we build them - LOL) in the GH addition as well as in all garden and flower pots.  So far it works pretty well so by the end of next summer amount of dirt left in those pots drops by several inches as the leaves have totally decomposed. Makes for a good soil to use in next year's fall process. At least we got what we needed/wanted  all bagged up while its was dry, ahead of the coming rains - its now saying we could get 1/2 an inch of rain this evening into early tomorrow.  We covered our addition space to try and keep it bit more dry for working in the area W-Su, hopefully by then we will have the GH up giving us some shelter for making the growing beds inside the space. At least that's the plan.