By the middle of last week, we had finished prepping the one bed in the greenhouse that didn't have any existing greens in it. We planted Smooth Leaf Spinach, Osaka Purple Mustard, Stir Fry Blend, Pac Choi Da Cheong Chae, Oriental Greens, Purple Mizuna, Arugula Adagio, Winter Mesclun Blend and Mache Vit (corn salad), all from seed. Then we put a layer of row cover over half of the greenhouse soil (including that row), and will hope for the best. Our planting guru is Eliot Coleman, who lives in Maine, so our growing conditions will be similar to his – and he plants year-round in his greenhouse. I'll let you know!
Orrin also put a roof on Gigi's shelter, and she seems to be a happier cow. He's trying to acquire some old boards off of a neighbor's old barn, which he will use to build the sides of her shelter. Hopefully later this week he'll be able to get those.
It has been very cold here lately (currently about -15C), and it's been hard to motivate to do projects outside. Orrin started to frame windows inside the other house a couple days ago, and has almost finished the first one. It took a few hours, but now that Orrin's starting to get the hang of it, hopefully the remaining windows will go a little faster.
In our own house, we spent yesterday organizing, and Orrin created some temporary shelves in the office area to make spaces a little more efficient. There is very little storage in this house, so we will be building storage as we have time, but our main priority is to finish the other house. I was able to finish unpacking the last two boxes of books onto the new shelves, and feel so good about having less clutter around here.
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