Lise Pettigrew

+ Follow
since Oct 02, 2020
Merit badge: bb list bbv list
For More
Apples and Likes
Apples
Total received
In last 30 days
0
Forums and Threads

Recent posts by Lise Pettigrew

It's in the corner of my home, at the bottom of a second stairwell that is rarely used.  I don't need it to look pretty, I just want it to be functional, it can look like an indoor greenhouse.  I've also purchased quite a number of seeds to do a "real garden" this next year.  I've got a little orchard with a couple dozen trees, and berries (currents, gooseberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries), grapes, and lots of herbs, a pumpkin patch, and lots of tomatoes, but I've never done a full grown garden.  I have plenty of land - and this is the year.  Seeds are bought.  So in addition to wanting some over the winter greens, I'd love to start some things indoors that benefit from being started early.  I'm completely overwhelmed by all of it.  Companion plantings, pest mitigation, soil amendment, keeping weeds at bay, how to orient my garden, how to water it best.  Anyhow, that's a lot more than  my indoor greenhouse.  Every time I walk past it I just kick myself.  I can't seem to get started, I've never done the indoor greenhouse thing.  So any ideas about a good place to start - would be helpful.  I'd like to plant my dwarf tom thumb tomato, basil, a lettuce mix, and a few other things that grow indoors well (if you suggest it, I probably have the seeds for it).  I hope that helps define my situation more appropriately.
4 years ago
I'm doing my first indoor greenhouse.  I have it in a corner with  South and West facing floor to ceiling windows.  It has a green cover, and I have some warming matts and lights.  I've never done a greenhouse before, and I'm trying to figure out the best setup to grow winter greens and things.  I just need to take the first step.  What would you do first?
4 years ago
I read this whole thread.  I have a couple chestnut trees in my yard.  one of the trees has copious amounts of the smaller chestnut, and the second has larger chestnuts.  Both have the three chestnuts inside, and both produce the small shriveled chestnuts.  Occasionally I will find a nice healthy puffed out chestnut (1/500), but mostly  shriveled.  I would love to have producing chestnuts, but I have no idea how to make that happen.  

Given what I read, it's either pollination or water.  Since i have the occasional plump one (very occasional), is it more likely water or pollination?  
4 years ago