Boy, it feels good to be outside, working to advance our 2026 garden! It’s t-shirt weather here! We’re prepping the initial outdoor phase of our gardens, where we move our plants into our semi-heated greenhouse!
Over the winter months, our greenhouse acts as storage for all of our container gardening setup and miscellaneous garden related stuff. While this stuff could survive outdoors, we like to protect it as it helps things last longer.
But, in the “spring,” we need to start using our greenhouse for its purpose, growing plants! In the shoulder season, we provide minimal heating to ward off frosts, giving us a ton of extra space for seedlings.
Once we get closer to last frost, our greenhouse will again shift towards our summer production of tomatoes, basil and cucumbers. We try to time things such that most of our seedlings are planted, thus reducing the need to serve dual purposes.
We continue to do our germination and earliest plant growth indoors. While we likely could shift some of it to the greenhouse, we heat to pretty minimal temperatures and that’s not compatible across all seedlings. We favor singular processes, whenever possible.
We’re super glad to be on the precipice of shutting down some of our grow lights and allowing mother nature to take over! We’ve still got five weeks to last frost, but our frozen subarctic land is finally thawing!
