Grow Baby Grow!

The kit set mini greenhouse and the two sun tunnels arrived. The mini green house sat on the window seat for about a week until I finally found the correct 'round-to-it' and put it together. I was further motivated to finally get it done this asap as the kittens had decided that the sheets of plastic that make up the wall and roof sections were great for chewing and jumping up and down on. NOT good karma for kitties!



The sun tunnels were pressed into service straight away. One tunnel is full of vege seed and the other now has flower seed in it. Some of the vege seed has been very quick to germinate, taking just 4 days! The empty tunnel; seen in front in this photo, has a couple of unique W.A.W.D.s in it ..... aka Wellington Anti Wind Devices hehehe. These old diving weights are very useful for this sort of thing here in Windy Wellington.

The mini green house went together without too much fuss and bother. It sat on top of my pattern drafting table for a further few days once it was all together whilst I figured out how I was going to stop it taking flight with the next little 'breeze' that passed through Wellington.
Silly me... I mistakenly imagined  that it would be safe from the onslaught of curious kitties if it was up on the table. HAH! Effie eyed it up, leaped up onto the table; then onto the peak of the green house, turned around and cast me an "Oh, you are joking if you think that will stop me" look and proceeded to use the lid sections as a kittie super slide. She is such a little monster and it is indeed fortunate that she is also very cute!

I'm hoping I've solved the potential; erm guaranteed, problem of flying greenhouses by building a heavy wooden base (with my son's help) and screwing the greenhouse to it. This will hopefully live up to the challenge of 120km/hr winds! The frame also provides a little more elevation for the greenhouse which means I should be able to fit 3 pairs of my Autopot hydroponics units inside it, which will be great for growing winter salad greens - or even summer ones for that matter if we have yet another bad summer.

The Autopots -

Autopot System

are something I brought back from Australia. It is a really great growing system and is perfect out on my very large front deck. I'm planning to expand the system some time next year as the units I planted up just after I got home are going really well. I use them primarily for salad greens and herbs at the moment and will increase the range of veges once I have more units.