Market Farming

[Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>]

Oh...molds and mildews...sigh.  Don't get me started on molds and mildews and the long winter of hassling with them, the baking soda solutions, the fans and so on.  I was going to put mold and mildew in the greenhouse season rant, but was getting a bit down about it all. 
 
 (Don't anyone post advice about ventilation etc.  I know all that.  I am just having a pity party.  There never was a greenhouse perfect enough to get me through the winter without a panic attack, never mind the snow load, the winds, the fuel costs.   The only reason that I didn't whine about rodents and what they cost the bottomline is because the nursery cat produced six kittens on February 25th, and the family is living in the greenhouse.  No rodents this year.....but SIX kittens to be dealt with.)  I've nearly stopped believing in spring......
 
Shawnee, zone 5, and so tired...

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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:12:02 -0400
From: maurysheets AT verizon.net
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse Seasons

Shawnee,

 

Have you been in my greenhouse?  You are describing it to a tee.  Only you left out the December and January season of the mold on the lettuces.

 

Maury

 

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shawnee Flowerfarmer
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:43 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Greenhouse Seasons

 

 My greenhouse really doesn't have
> seasons in it either, except too hot or too cold 
> Maury
 
My organic greenhouses DO have seasons......late fall season-the aphids are here somewhere; I can smell them.  Mid winter season-Ah ha!  aphids! Get rid of those plants.  Late winter season-yikes, dratted aphids; little creeps are born pregnant; perhaps a little spot nictotine spray.  Early spring season-the ladybugs are here somewhere; I can feel it.  Spring season-what happened to  those aphids? Look at all the fat ladybug nymphs.
 
Two other seasons:  pre-December 23rd-Should I use supplemental lighting?  post December 23rd-Welcome sunshine!  This winter I have added another season:  who put the anticondensate plastic on wrong side down?
 
Shawnee, zone 5 hearing the call of the love-sick cardinal all day but not seeing spring yet.
 
 

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