I got this greenhouse through an online group where people post what they have to give away or what they are seeking. Check out the yahoo group freecycle for a chapter near you. I felt so very blessed when I messaged the guy who was giving it away and it was still available. It has four tiers and four florescent light fixtures.
On the second tier shown here I had a failure. I planted impatiens in the rectangular yogurt cups after poking holes in the bottoms, I must have kept them too moist because there is some green stuff growing in most of them instead of the impatiens. At least there should be enough of them to fill a couple of hanging planters. Also on this tier are beefsteak tomatoes, garlic chives, geraniums, one gardenia, pansies and pennyroyal. All are doing pretty well. I think the pennyroyal will have to be planted in ground. They haven't grown much in the past month and look too weak to me. We will see.
The top tier has aster, marigold, coleus, zinnia, eggplant, sage and an open pollinated variety of black cherry tomatoes.......yummmmmmm :) This tier has it's plants in last year's 4 packs or small peat pots I purchased at the local dollar store and they are doing much better than plants that were in yogurt cups. I wanted to re-use the yogurt cups instead of sending them directly to recycling, I think they need larger holes in them for better drainage. I will try them again with the bigger holes.
Here are my awesome tomatoes on the bottom tier, I had to remove the third tier to make room for them :) The varieties are brandywine which is a nice big juicy tomato, and sweetie which is a succulent cherry type, both open pollinated varieties so I can save the seed for next year. Some of these are going into sawed off 2 litre soda bottles soon. Looks like I will have to dig some deep holes come planting time.
Here we have basil and sweet annie, (sweet wormwood). These were started in the middle of winter in the indoor greenhouse and are doing so nicely. They are now in a west window in the living room. I put them back in the greenhouse a few days a week for light and moisture. Yes, I made the plant pokes with the names of the plants on them.
The sweet annie gets around 5-6 feet tall, is a ferny looking plant. I love it's scent (fresh and clean) and can't wait till I can start bringing them inside later this summer. The dried plant keeps it's scent for months after harvesting. All you have to do is touch it to release the scent. Of course, I will keep one of these plants for inside and the other one will be planted outside. I will also plant some seed in the ground.
On the second tier shown here I had a failure. I planted impatiens in the rectangular yogurt cups after poking holes in the bottoms, I must have kept them too moist because there is some green stuff growing in most of them instead of the impatiens. At least there should be enough of them to fill a couple of hanging planters. Also on this tier are beefsteak tomatoes, garlic chives, geraniums, one gardenia, pansies and pennyroyal. All are doing pretty well. I think the pennyroyal will have to be planted in ground. They haven't grown much in the past month and look too weak to me. We will see.
The top tier has aster, marigold, coleus, zinnia, eggplant, sage and an open pollinated variety of black cherry tomatoes.......yummmmmmm :) This tier has it's plants in last year's 4 packs or small peat pots I purchased at the local dollar store and they are doing much better than plants that were in yogurt cups. I wanted to re-use the yogurt cups instead of sending them directly to recycling, I think they need larger holes in them for better drainage. I will try them again with the bigger holes.
Here are my awesome tomatoes on the bottom tier, I had to remove the third tier to make room for them :) The varieties are brandywine which is a nice big juicy tomato, and sweetie which is a succulent cherry type, both open pollinated varieties so I can save the seed for next year. Some of these are going into sawed off 2 litre soda bottles soon. Looks like I will have to dig some deep holes come planting time.
Here we have basil and sweet annie, (sweet wormwood). These were started in the middle of winter in the indoor greenhouse and are doing so nicely. They are now in a west window in the living room. I put them back in the greenhouse a few days a week for light and moisture. Yes, I made the plant pokes with the names of the plants on them.
The sweet annie gets around 5-6 feet tall, is a ferny looking plant. I love it's scent (fresh and clean) and can't wait till I can start bringing them inside later this summer. The dried plant keeps it's scent for months after harvesting. All you have to do is touch it to release the scent. Of course, I will keep one of these plants for inside and the other one will be planted outside. I will also plant some seed in the ground.
