Growing Vegetables in a Greenhouse

Growing food in a greenhouse is cool!

I thought I would give you a quick tour and show you all the goodness we have growing in our greenhouse. I was able to snag a few free containers over the weekend so I’ll be planting those and lining the sides of the greenhouse this week.

Gnome Lady has been doing a fantastic job taking care of the raised garden beds alongside the greenhouse. The chives, lilies and potatoes all seem to be growing well together.

Over the weekend I was able to replant the gutters on the left side of the greenhouse. We now have cucumbers, basil {just planted seeds last night} Swiss chard and hot peppers growing.

The cucumber seeds we started a few weeks ago and I forgot to label them. I have no idea what variety I planted in the gutters but it’s either Marketmore, Lemon, or Burpless. I’m hoping they are the burpless ones because the vines are nice and long.

Swiss chard. Yipee! Are you as excited as I am? Ha! I planted the extra starts in the bed next to the greenhouse along with the cabbage. Hopefully they are good companion vegetables.

Although I grew peppers last summer in the greenhouse, they were planted in pots. I think it will be interesting to see how they do in the gutters. I noticed last summer their root systems were not especially long so we’ll see. I’ll also growing some pepper plants in pots as well.

Strawberries LOVE growing in gutters. If this idea is new to you, read — How to grow strawberries in gutters. It will tell you how I planted mine.

So far there are 2 red ones! Wahoooo! Strawberry Bruschetta can’t be too far behind.

And last but not least, here is a look at the green zebra tomatoes that were transplanted to the old chicken brooder a few weeks ago. Tomatoes, carrots. onions and basil have been planted.

Yee-Haw! Now we’re farming!

~Mavis

You can see more pictures of our greenhouse and the progress we are making, in my Growing Vegetables in a Greenhouse Series.

Greenhouse Gardener’s Companion