We didn’t have enough money after the 2011 fire to repair the greenhouse, but Andy did have the contractor fix the plumbing down to it. He’s tried growing tomatoes the past two years, but until Wednesday he couldn’t close the greenhouse door because the doorknob was damaged — if he closed the door he might not have been able to open it again.
That problem is now a thing of the past. Wednesday the locksmith came up and replaced the door handle.
Now when his new tomato plants come they should be safe from animals. Birds are another matter — the greenhouse still doesn’t have a roof. Who knows? Progress is slow, but if Andy lives long enough ….
May 1, 2015
He will. He must.
There are no guarantees in life.
Oh! A greenhouse.
I’d love to have a greenhouse.
Well… I actually kinda do!
I pretend my enclosed front porch is a greenhouse, so it is!
In my mind anyway. LOL!
Isn’t there some sort of netting he could rig up over the plants to keep the birds off?
and even if progress is slow, it’s still progress! 😉
i think a little porch greenhouse sounds WONDERFUL! perfect!
no bugs. easy to work in! kudos to you!
He hasn’t had trouble with birds on the tomatoes yet. He does have netting around the pussy willow and will around the cherry trees if they start having more fruit.
he will live long! and he will love having yet a new project!
and the birds may not be that big a problem anyway! one can hope.
i had a garden once years ago… and my strawberries were eaten by terrapins!
i wouldn’t have minded if they had eaten just a few berries. but they took a bite out of each one and moved to the next for a new bite! LOLOL. happy little turtles were they.
you have to love nature. and thank your lucky stars for a grocery store! XO
I remember birds taking pecks out of each ripe apricot on my grandmother’s trees when I was little. The yellow jackets loved it because it opened the soft insides for them.
Ah, home-grown tomatoes! We don’t have a chance at those here, except if we someday get a greenhouse. We stick with lettuce and other cold-tolerant things like that, with lots of protection from the birds who will eat the lettuce literally as fast as it sprouts!
Good luck with your tomatoes!
When we first had a garden we harvested many a green tomato after the first frost! The shell of a house that burned down had a little greenhouse on the ground floor, and tomatoes did well there. This greenhouse was built to keep the animals out of the rest of our garden. Here’s the story: http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/11/24/our-garden-in-the-woods/
I had to give up on growing my own tomatoes – a naughty little, actually not little but certainly elderly found a way to peck at mine – even when I wrapped them in a kind of netting…
One day I looked out & there he was prancing about under the netting and then he flittered away through a little gap he had created. I closed up the gap but still he came.
I see him from time to time – I sometimes throw him an apple core – that’s not such a good game though 🙂
I’m afraid Peter Mayle may have been right. He says he would never have a garden because
Jean, love the quote it will fit very nicely with my creativity project where I have to change the site problems because the in-ground outdoor clothesline is not about to stop fighting for his right to be there! Even though the c/line is large it must be securely in the ground because not even windy days sees it flying a way 🙂
Fresh tomatoes are great.
Agreed!