• IMALlamaEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Well it’s frustrating because you can absolutely plant stuff outside because it’s warm enough, it’s just a lot of effort with hoop houses or other stuff to protect it incase it does dip (it always does eventually).

    100%, same here. It was 21 °C / 70 °F this weekend, but the low on Tuesday is -4.4 °C / 24 °F.

    And even if it’s warm enough, it’ll snow a foot on May long crushing everything haha

    Thankfully, we don’t really have to worry about snow this time of year and are very unlikely to get more than an inch.

    I’m sorry to hear about your health!

    Our garden area consists of four 1.2 m x 2.4 m / 4’ x 8’ beds with a 1.2m / 4’ pathway between the beds. I plant for things that climb and have a bed full of raspberries. Hoops don’t seem that practical unless I paid a lot more attention to seed starting time. Even then, a fuke frost would kill my cukes, squash, peas, beans, etc :( A big enough greenhouse to cover the four beds seems like it would be expensive…

    • SchmidtGeneticsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Most of the snow is light/small, but there is the risk, usually happens every second year, but climate change is exacerbating stuff as we all know.

      I’m just glad to be getting it done, long time waiting.

      I’ve got similar, I’ve got 2 - 4x12’ beds with 2’ between them, so to make one single greenhouse large enough makes it too large and would need permits and property tax ramifications. My plan would be to make a 4x12 greenhouse which would make those two beds down to 4x8. I would also maybe put another greenhouse down by the fence so it gets the morning light an evening shade. The two garden beds are on the west of the house, so doesn’t get sun till noon.

      I’ve also got 8 2x4 beds as well, those wouldn’t be bad too cover, but with carpal tunnel it’s not something I would want to do every day.