The green house in the closet
With much anticipation I planned the garden plot, first at home on graph paper and then at the garden site with measure and twine, laying out the paths. The month before I ordered the seeds from an Oregon company, Territorial, stopped at the garden store for some peat pots and potting soil and started the seedlings in the closet in the study.
It was obvious that I needed a grow light from the start and I first wanted simply a grow lamp that would fit in the neon that was the closet light. I stopped at a garden store near home late in the afternoon on the way home from work. The three sales clerks looked like they were from another era, an earlier time that I was familiar with when grow lights meant clandestine marijuana growing. None of the three guys were old enough to be refugees from that era, none of them moved my way to help me. I asked, and was told that they had the good lamps with the neon c3, the best, and all the hardware that would suit my vegetable closet green house. I was home and had it all set up before dinner.
I planted some spinach, lettuce, and broccoli in a potting soil compost mixture directly in the garden in mid-March. The weather turned colder, we got some snow, the only seeds that came up were the broccoli plants. I did some work around the borders of the garden.
I felt good that I was establishing a regular weekend routine of going to the garden.
Garden with paths
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