Welcome back! I'm Holly Capelle, a gardener in Portland, Oregon garden zone 8b, and the last
time we talked I was sharing with you my eight tips for successfully sewing seeds indoors, under
the lights. I thought it would be fun to give you a little update on how things are growing!
And, as you can see, we're bursting at the seams! I am running out of room, story of
my gardening life. So much so that we've decided to go ahead and get our greenhouse
prepped and ready for the new season, and we're beginning to move out our starts
starting with our early spring guys first. Our cold loving plants like broccoli, cauliflower,
chives, violas, and so on. What I'm going to do, since it is still early spring or early march,
is move them out half at a time. So, half of my chard, half of my broccoli,
etc. This way if some freak storm comes by or for some reason they don't acclimate well
to the greenhouse, I don't lose everybody all at once. I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I have no doubt that my spring starts will be perfectly fine in the greenhouse right now,
but I'd rather just kind of step it into there, so that I don't, I don't blow it.
This will also help me make room in here for some of our summer veg that is really taking off;
our tomatoes are getting huge, peppers finally making a showing, and my eggplant is also
starting to take off. And then, it also gives me room to sew more seeds because that's what I do,
I just keep sewing the seeds. So come on out! Let me show you what's happening in the greenhouse.
But first, be sure to hit that subscribe button and notification bell because Kellogg Garden has
all kinds of cool videos coming out this year from gardeners in zones all over the u.s and
you will not want to miss them. Welcome to the greenhouse! Nope, it's not fancy, but you don't
need a fancy greenhouse to grow successfully. This is just one of those pop-up green houses
that you can get for under a hundred dollars at a big box store or garden center or even online
and it works great. We have two ventilation panels on both sides that can open up, as well
as the front door opens all the way, and the back door opens all the way. Good airflow is key for
greenhouse growing, and this under 100 greenhouse does that job. We also have installed lights in
here, this greenhouse sits on our patio right next to where the power is, so if we need to add
a heater in here we can, we will also add a fan in here for good airflow, continuing good airflow.
So, it helps to have your greenhouse sitting somewhere near a power source. We'll use these
lights for when we start popping seeds outside, right now we're still starting them indoors,
but eventually that process will move out here too and we'll just give them a little bit of light
to help them out. Otherwise, so far the spring babies that we've moved out here are loving it!
My chives are happy, my swiss chard standing back up, daisies are really happy. The only one
looking a little bit sad is kale. But so what, who kales? It'll be fine, no big deal. So, the plan
is to let these guys live in here for just a couple weeks, not long actually. And then, we'll
get them transplanted over into the garden so they can get going. I'm so excited to be getting this
garden process happening, I hope you are too! Drop us a note in the comments and let us know where
you're at in the process. Are you planting seeds, are you ordering seeds, are you making start lists
for what you're going to buy at the nursery? We want to know! Share it with us below. I hope you
enjoyed this update on how things are going with my indoor grow and now the greenhouse happenings.
I hope it's inspiring you to get started as well, and if you're interested in more gardening,
backyard farming happenings, you can find me over at instagram @bigfamilyliving, Happy gardening!