I’ve installed a couple of rain water tanks - inside and the outside the greenhouse.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

I’ve installed a couple of rain water tanks - inside and the outside the greenhouse. To avoid still water that attracts mozzies, I’ve added a solar powered air pump. It’s absurdly loud inside the greenhouse though. I was trying all sorts of things to dampen the sound. Found a YouTube video where someone suspends a similar pump in a glass jar and it actually works! Can still hear it but not to the point of distraction. Feel absurdly pleased with myself. Now to find a way to make it look nice.

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@helenclayton well done! You will have such fun using your greenhouse.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@IcooIey yes, I really do need to start using it and get things growing!

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@IcooIey and guess who’s just joined me in here and is having a lovely dust bath again 😂

[helenclayton@mas.to]

Pump needs to be higher than the tank to stop siphoning so I’ve found a suitable plant stand and will hide jar somehow. Maybe it’ll make a nice pheasant nest 😅

[hmallett@toot.wales]

@helenclayton You sound super organised. I cleared our greenhouse 2 or 3 years ago, then never got round to using it. Now it is entirely overgrown with brambles.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@hmallett the previous owners had an odd arrangement of water butts and barrels that overflowed everywhere and caused problems. I needed to do something with the rain water so went for something a bit more stylish and with suitable overflows. I even have aquatic plants in the tanks! The potting benches had rotted too so I’ve taken everything out and remade them with metal legs. Hopefully I can start growing stuff now!

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@helenclayton it’s like having a cat!

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@IcooIey it very much is. I am also careful not to startle her. Though our grocery delivery arrived and I managed to creep past her without her getting in a flap.

[photovotary@beige.party]

@helenclayton excellent!

[suearcher@toot.wales]

@helenclayton

Well done you!

I've been sorting my craft room, and have worked all the way along one wall. OK, it's the wall with the least on it, but it's a start.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@suearcher that’s great! I’m not very good at focusing on doing one thing so I’m very impressed.

[suearcher@toot.wales]

@helenclayton

I do sometimes get sidetracked, but if I get into it, and get a system going, it helps. It's all at the "looks much worse" stage of course, as there are binbags and crates for various sorts of recycling etc all over the floor. But there is stuff to go out of the house, which is the aim.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@suearcher I’m often at the ‘looks much worse’ stage with most things 🤔

[pollinators@epicure.social]

@helenclayton @hmallett Congratulations on the greenhouse progress. Can you host a seeds and starts tea? #growyourown

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@Pollinators @hmallett ooh what’s that then?

[pollinators@epicure.social]

@helenclayton @hmallett It was an imaginary garden tea party to jump start the greenhouse experience. Guests would bring gardening seeds to share. And other guests would be sharing plants they have started.

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@Pollinators @hmallett what a lovely idea! I’m not doing so well on the plants yet but I could make cake!

[pollinators@epicure.social]

@helenclayton @hmallett Cake is appropriate. What plants are you welcoming?

[helenclayton@mas.to]

@Pollinators @hmallett I do have lots of seeds to start. I needed to sort out benches and water first. Manure and/or compost for the bed (a couple of friends have horses so probably manure). Greenhouse will be for growing tomatoes and cucumbers mainly but also starting off everything else.