So our greenhouse is wonderful, but it's not heated. The "tropicals" I've been growing are mostly happy, but not all of them.
Both basil are dead, as is the tomato.
There are 5 citrus which are all doing very well, insofar as I have been able to keep the scale and aphids under control.
Of the 10 peppers that started into fall, 6 are alive. There were 5 jalapenos, of which only one died (two of these jalapenos overwintered last winter too), and at least one is making baby peppers. The anaheims are both dead, but the Yankee Bell, while fruitless and ratty looking, is alive, and the Nardello keeps ripening but not making more peppers. Since we have lots of hot sauce, I'm not sure what to do with all the jalapenos.
The coffee tree is very unhappy; I brought it into the house but I think it's too late to save it. Too bad, it was looking really good and probably 4 years old. It did fine in the garage the last two winters.
The turmeric - well, I'm impressed. The leaves all died down so I harvested the tubers, and there's almost two pounds of pretty good looking roots! That's from a 2-3 gallon pot, after repotting 3 smaller plants, although it was 2 years in the pot since I thought it was all dead last winter. I don't know what to do with it all! I can see that it should have been harvested earlier, there's some browning. Tumeric is a beautiful plant, with big, tropical banana leaves. I put the pot inside a larger pot with no holes, elevated on some rocks. So it usually had water under the roots, which helped when the greenhouse gets so warm in the summer.
The aloe and scented geranium are doing fine with this degree of chill. The vietnamese coriander is okay (better than the spearming and peppermint, actually). The unknown variety of banana plant that Don gave me seems unphased by the cold, although it's not actually growing.
After a week of cold but sunny weather, today was a mix of snow with cold and some sun and some gray. Winter in Oregon... I've got most of my seeds orders done, started onion seeds already, and some arugula and lettuce... but it's time to work on the greenhouse floor, rather than play with seeds. We worked on the duckhouse floor and foundation yesterday, so we've got the really heavy work done for that.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
What, exactly, do I do with a lot of turmeric? Or, I love the greenhouse
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