Re: Gene's greenhouse NOW Sycamore

Bonnie, I'll be on the lookout for some in my flowerbeds this spring. I love them, too. I transplanted one to my yard last year, but I don't have room for any more. I hate to pull them out and throw them away. I'll let you know what comes up.
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Holmes" <holmesbm@usit.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse


Do you have any seedlings?  I am trying to get some sycamores to grow on
our property.  We purchased one...only one area nursery had one for
sale...my DH and I think they are beautiful.
Bonnie ETN Zone 7



[Original Message]
From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: gardenchat@hort.net <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 1/18/2006 11:59:05 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse

It doesn't get cold enough where I live to need real heat inside the
greenhouse. I put in 3 big plastic drums full of water, figuring it would

be

a kind of thermal buffer for when the temps drop. I guess it works.
Sometimes if it is forecasted to get seriously cold I'll run a little

floor

heater at night. What I should have done is buy a bigger fan. Even in
winter, when the sun is out it gets hot in there, upwards of 90F. By the

end

of March I've moved everything outside. Mid-summer it will get over 120F
(comes in handy if you need to dehydrate veggies or fruit leather).
I have a dilemma now though. When we sited the greenhouse there was this
small struggling sycamore nearby. It was a side of our yard we didn't use
much, didn't irrigate. I didn't figure the sycamore would cause a

problem. I

guess it got enough water from what drips onto the greenhouse floor

because

it got big in a hurry. Now it shades the greenhouse quite a bit when I

bring

in plants end of October, and here the dead leaves hang on the sycamore

for

months unless there's a really big wind. On the plus side, most of what I
bring inside is the stuff from my patio which has been in partial shade

all

summer anyway. But the tree is not going to get smaller...so I need to
decide what to do about it.

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On

Behalf

Of Cornergar@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:14 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Gene's greenhouse

I think I am grateful now that I made the decision to go passive solar

only
in my grnhse so I do not have any gas bills. I do have power so in really
extreme weather I can leave lights on for enough additional warmth to keep
from
losing everything. It seldom gets below 28F even with several cloudy 0
degree
days in a row. Of course I'm not really "growing" anything...just holding.
But it
works for holding the more tender things in 1 gal pots and I can be out
there
potting up plugs and bare root in Feb. Don't have running water 'tho which
is
sort of a pain but do-able. By the end of Mar I'm bursting at the seams
but

by then I can start hardening off which isn't too difficult as the pots

have

been subject to a hard life already! Am still anxious to try hypertufa.

It's
a
New Years resolution! I like this time of year..Anticipation is high ( and
the
body doesn't hurt too much yet). kathy

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