Greenhouse Completion and Babies Growing

Well, I'm typing this very early on Sunday morning. Winter has descended upon STL again. I looked at my alarm this morning and it was flashing so when I looked outside and saw the heavy snow, I just wanted to make sure that all was well with my newly planted 5500 baby plants growing in our greenhouse. Here is a rundown of how our plants and greenhouse are coming along.

Plants are placed in either 1801's on the left(18 individual 3" pots) or 606's (6 plants per section with 6 sections per tray-36 plants per tray)

That is a 450 tray on the left of Red Salvia.(450 red salvia plants in one tray) I normally do not grow material from this size but I was late in the process this season of ordering in our material. The price is less to purchase large quantities of material but of course you have a bit more growing to do with smaller sized plants. Those plants are rather difficult to get out of their holder without damaging them so I took a punch from Harry and pushed the plants out of their holder. You would then simply form a hole with your finger and press the plants into place. They would be lightly watered and would be put on pallets in the shop for a few days until our house was completed.

Above are some of the early plants which were potted and freshly watered.

A few days after our plants came in, here they are lined up on pallets on our shop floor waiting for the completion of the greenhouse. You can see our work station to the left. Table which is where we planted the material. Bales of potting material and boxes of trays and containers.

A view from the doorway of the greenhouse where you can see the three rows of plant material growing. Our tables are pretty full as you can see. We have 3 more plant varieties coming in which are going to be utilized for some of our planting urns. We have some large quantities of some standard annuals such as celosia, impatiens, blue and red salvia, ageratum and melapodium in which some will be utilized on property but will be available for sale. Sweet potatoe vines of both colors, shrimp plant, mexican petunia, angle wing begonia, pentas, large copper plant, sun coleus, mexican heather, angelonia, persian shield, silver shield plectranthus, supertunia, calibrachoa, and bacopa which should look great on property this season and will be available for sale.