Has anyone ever moved their greenhouse?
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Has anyone ever grown potatoes from seed?
Comments (7)I have. I grew some from seed of rare Andean strains - that didn't work out so well, I was never able to get large tubers. Then last summer I started some seed that I took from a fruit off of mid-summer plants. By late fall they had matured some smallish tubers, which I'll plant out with the others this spring. I also plan to start more seed early in flats and get the plants set out by mid-may to produce new potatoes. Of course, open-pollinated TPS makes unpredictable tubers, which is kind of fun. I havn't tried any of the hybrid seed that supposedly sets consistent tubers....See Moreanyone ever moved a wooden shed?
Comments (11)Thanks - for the bobcat info especially! I *think* we've decided to try rolling it along on pipes or logs, but if we could get a bobcat to pick the whole caboodle up that would be fantastic. It turns out that the new location is *slightly* uphill, and the finished site is therefore on a gentle grade, so we'll have to do some shoring up at the front of the shed. We went out and bought two automotive jacks - a trolley and a bottle - and so far have been using the trolley to lift the corners up gradually. It turned out the base of this shed was BURIED about a foot or so into the ground! We basically had to excavate trenches around it to get the jack underneath the structure. What a pain. At this point we've raised the whole thing up just to aboveground level and rain has kept us from finishing the job (have to fill the trenches in to prevent cave-ins when wet). Also because of the burial, the floor will need to be ripped out and replaced, as will (I'm sure) the joists and the sill on two sides. I confess that as an amateur carpenter I'm actually enjoying this - a LOT more fun than renovating the house you're actually living in!...See MoreIs Anyone Moving their Tomatoes to a Greenhouse?
Comments (8)Actually I've had very good luck starting my plants early. I have put out 3' tall plants in full flower given that I grow under HID lighting and never have I had a plant produce much more than a 6" plant set out at the same time. I know a lot of people whose tomatoes don't start producing until the end of July or early August, so I feel I am ahead of the game. You are waaaay ahead of the game. I have never known anyone to get any tomato plant to start yielding well in the beginning of July in Wisconsin other than very early varieties and even then it's iffy. I did find on another post that some people put their plants out, but use a heating mat to make sure the soil stays warm. A heating mat isn't going to do much good outside. Ever felt that heat mat? It isn't hot, it's barely more than room temp. It heats gently. Given the cooler air temps around and over the plants I just don't see the heat mat doing much outside (maybe in a greenhouse). If they get too lanky, I can always either pot them up some more (which I've done in the past, or "trench plant" them when I put them in, which I've also done. Both work nicely. These methods really don't work that well. They aren't optimal methods, but rather methods to deal with the less than optimal. A tall lanky plant get's it's stem buried because otherwise it would just get blown about in the wind and possibly sheared off. A healthy plant doesn't require this, it grows in proportion, height and stem. You are certainly welcome to start as early as you like, but you still have time to start more from seed right now (or this weekend, or next). Don't worry about me (who am I?) or proving anything to me, just try it and observe the results yourself. There have been studies done on this and on these forums Dr. Carolyn Male has indicated that for the thousands and thousands of plants she has grown out, those started early are surpassed by those started on time. This has been true of my own experience as much as I wish it wasn't the case....See Morehas anyone ever seen plain old club moss for sale?
Comments (8)I don't know about your specific species of Diphasiastrum, but in my neck of the woods, my experience in trying to move them from areas slated for building suggests that they are difficult to transplant, even when only getting moved short distances (several feet). This agrees with William Cullina (New England Wildflower Society and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens) in his book Native Ferns, Mosses & Grasses where he says, "I hesitated about whether to include the clubmosses in this work, as they can be quite refractory in cultivation." He goes on to rate them as difficult to propagate from division (though he has had some success) and unsuccessful in his experience from spores. Elsewhere I found a comment that it could be 20 years from spores, so between the two, I imagine that it's not commercially feasible. I've also read some speculation from Cullina and others that they may need mycorrhizal fungi to grow well, though I don't think this is established as fact. I don't know if anyone has tried growing them from tissue culture. I did find one sales listing for a bog Lycopodium, L. appressum from the Meadowview Biological Research Station in VA....See Moregardenerwantabe
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