Nov 12, 2013
This is Sam King, a member of the Urban Ag Spring Class. Notice the luxurious wooden backrest he’s leaning against? Sam just built this himself over the past few weeks. Thanks to all his hard work us garden folks can sit back and relax!
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This is Sam King, a member of the Urban Ag Spring Class. Notice the luxurious wooden backrest he’s leaning against? Sam just built this himself over the past few weeks. Thanks to all his hard work us garden folks can sit back and relax!
USF Greenhouse
Welcome to the new USF Community Garden greenhouse!
At USF we use our greenhouse to germinate our seeds. Germinating is the process of our seeds cotyledons (first leaves), breaking free and sprouting to become plants. The ideal conditions for germinating seeds is moisture and warmth. The greenhouse provides both these conditions and also keeps out pests from eating our baby plants. Once our plants are strong and old enough we transfer them from the greenhouse into our plant beds!
Garden volunteers and Urban Ag class members built the greenhouse last semester over a series of months (Spring 2013). The materials were given to the garden by an amazing unanimous donor! It was a lot of work but the greenhouse has greatly improved our garden’s efficiency. Recently we added a water line to the greenhouse for easy access to water/moisture.
The picture below are plants growing in the greenhouse now. They go in this order: lettuce, tree collards, gooseberries, and tomatoes. The tomato is not a baby plant but because they need warmer conditions, we decided to leave it in the greenhouse.
Reemay
Ever wonder what those strange white cloths that cover garden beds are? What they actually are called is reemay or floating row covers. They are lightweight polyester fabric that we hang over our plant beds with plastic hoops. We use them in the USF Garden to protect and grow our crops more efficiently. When we sow seeds directly into the ground, we lay down our reemay without hoops like this:
We use them to protect our baby plants to ensure that they grow into large healthy crops. Reemay keeps the plant bed warm and produces and hotter microclimate within. They also keep out flying pests like butterflies and birds. To learn more about reemay or purchase some for yourself click: http://www.territorialseed.com/category/171
Once the plants are old and large enough (8-12 inches) we can remove the reemay and let them grow freely.
That's some tasty looking lettuce! :)