Oooh, Tabby! That is so exciting! I love it when someone plants something off the swaps and then is able to offer more of it the next season. That is so cool.
Thanks on the greenhouse. I will say this has been my learning curve and getting ready for the first winter in it. Everything is in but the heat and that will come in the next couple of weeks. Before frost, lol. I really did not know what I was going to do with the greenhouse. I thought this is kind of expensive for one huge milk jug for winter sowing, lol. But, in the end, it's so much more. I'm not happy with one of my tomatoes. It produces but still. It's kind of nice having the greenhouse knowing that I can start another one and keep eating off this one until the second one gets here. I also lost a pack of bee balm seeds. I managed to get 4 off one sowing a couple of months ago and so now I've been dividing those 4. When I pinch the tops, the cuttings get planted. It's been nice having the greenhouse to get them started without having to worry about bugs and weather. I thought we finally got rid of the grasshoppers but in the cool down, they came back in droves. The greenhouse has been nice to protect them.
We also live in the country and I really didn't think there was that much need for one. What am I going to do with all this space? Well, not so much space right now. With taking overwintering cuttings right now, it's filling up fast. But I can say the few months that I have had it, even when empty, has been worth it. Chuck ran me a misting system and included drip lines so it's really been nice. If anyone else is going to invest, my biggest piece of advice is buy all the space you can afford. Second thing, ventilation. Get one with plenty of automatic windows, lol. After that, the rest is easy peasy as far as water, lighting and heating.
Well, I"m off to gather a couple more seeds. We had 3 days of rain and the last couple of days I spent getting fall/winter gardens cleaned up. There was grass everywhere but now, it looks like I'm getting ready for spring. While cleaning, I found a coneflower I had bought this year and it's blooming to beat the band. Nice. At least that's one more seed I have to share this season, lol.
