LysmachiaMoon's blog: Greenhouse Games

So, I got the new plastic sheeting on the greenhouse and then I saw where along the south and west sides, the brick floor had really settled and sagged. Plus, a friend gave me a big old picnic table to go in the greenhouse. I decided to light two candles with one match: fix floor, bring in table. Hauled almost everything out of the greenhouse (a huge job because I use it for winter storage). Then pulled up bricks, hauled in dirt (10 5-gallon buckets from E's house), filled in the low spots, tamped level, hauled in fine gravel, etc etc. Reset bricks along south wall yesterday; finished the west wall today. THEN the fun started: getting that old picnic table which measure 33 inches wide through a door that measures 32 inches wide. It took an hour to wee-jee it in, a little this way, a little that way, move this thingy, move that thingy. I know I probly should have asked someone to help, but I love a challenge.
Now, the greenhouse is as "done" as it's going to be for now. I put everything back in except some pots and I'm not going to do anything more because over the course of the next few weeks I'll be in there moving stuff around and bringing things out for spring. No point in trying to organize everything perfectly only to dis-organize it later. But the floor sure does look better! I even grouted it with sand and fine gravel.

So, that's another big project done. Last week I got the paper mulberries out along the South Border, this week the greenhouse. Next on the agenda is the hen run. I got the broken posts out, and I borrowed E's big pry bar so next time the weather is willing, I'll get up there and try to get the old concrete out.

Oh, forgot. I used the rotted posts to form a sort of "pedestal" in the woodland Glade area. It's just four posts stacked up into an open rectangle about 4 x 2 feet and 18 inches high that I will fill with dirt, rocks, etc. to make a platform for my wire frame deer. I have had this little wire frame deer for YEARS and I finally decided what to do with him. He's only about 3 feet tall at the highest point of his antlers so that's why the pedestal thingy. After I get that filled and he's sitting on solid ground, I'm going to train miniature ivy over him to make him into a topiary. I think he'll look really nice back there in the Glade. I'm going to first paint him black (he's white), and then I think I'll try stuffing him with coir or something to give the ivy better rooting. It's one of those little projects that I'll do when I have time.

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