Last fall/early winter we managed to complete one side of the greenhouse with Lexan glass before the snow came. When it did snow, it filled up inside the greenhouse….our hearts broke. We HAD to do something. However, the installation of the glass was VERY time consuming. Once you measured your next piece, it had to be put in place to pre drill all the holes. Then very gingerly take it down, vacuum out all the holes, seal/tape the edges. Then caulk the areas on the lumber where the glass would be laid, put the glass back in place, attach with the screws and seal/tape those seams. So, we decided to close it in with some poly for the winter. Boy are we glad we did that. Seem to work out great. And it helped with our early start to our crops in that spring.

If you look at the picture on the left, you can see the side with the half moon window is completely finished with the Lexan (plus underneath the long window to the left of that patio door with the grills). The other 3 sides and roof had to be finished with the plastic…IT WORKED!!!

So, about 3 weeks ago, our weather went into total hot sunny weather! It was fabulous! Inside, temps reached about 40C on some days if we didn’t open all the windows. Anyways, we decided to work on the roof first. Again, very time consuming. Kristian’s dad helped us out a lot. Funny thing, not one of us remembered to seal the seams when as we were doing it. It rained a little later the last day that Kris and his dad were just finishing up. The next day it was pouring – so was the inside of the greenhouse – YIKES! Well, it wasn’t cold and our plants were getting watered! Within a couple of days when it was a dry warm day again, they got back up and sealed it all up. Great job boys! 🙂

Hey! Thanks for following my stories so far. I should be up to date with these blogs now. Diving into my real estate career lately has left me little time to write…but I love this. Its kind of meditating, therapeutic perhaps 🙂  So, I may go back in time…from time to time to reflect on some things that I didn’t get a chance to write about before. I hope I don’t confuse anyone. Think of it as one of those movies that goes back and forth in time.

If you’re new at reading this, my first blog is at the bottom of this page, titled “First blog post” 😉

What I hope to gain from this page is to communicate with anyone around the world to get their take, advise or experience on gardening. And who knows, maybe I can offer some help to others as well.

So, this year we planted seeds for the following: Asparagus, pea, green bean, mustard, cucumber, zucchini, dill, parsley, cauliflower, broccoli, tomato, peppers, chilli pepper, pumpkin, potato, yellow onion, red onion, romain lettuce, carrots, kale, chard, and spinach. Plus a boat load of flowers; from morning glories to forget me knots. (We also picked up some strawberry plants at Lester’s Farm later in the spring and planted them in our yard).

We did most of this inside the garage again. Although we got the greenhouse closed in last fall, its still way too cold for them. Except we were getting some bright sunny days in a row! So, we carried each tray of seedlings and some pots to the greenhouse from the garage. We started to notice a big difference in the run of one day. It was great. Kept checking weather seeing that nice days were turning into colder not so nice days….we would then bring everything back to the garage again. We did this about 4 or 5 times until I was tired of it. I decided to close off the “attic” part of the greenhouse with some poly to try and keep heat down where the plants were. I ran a cord out to it and plugged in our infrared heater for a few hours in the night time. I remember automatically waking up at 2am, 4am, etc to run out to the greenhouse in my house coat – could be snow on the ground – just to check to make sure the temp was ok and that the heater was running properly. Tough few weeks with it, but we managed.