Winter’s Over

Last fall, I set up some experimental “greenhouses” to see if I could grow some greens over a cold Idaho winter. I had bought some portable planters last summer and rigged them up with hoops to support some heavy semi-clear plastic covers. The covers were held in place with carpenter’s clamps.

I picked up 3 of the planter boxes at Costco a couple of years ago -n the cost about $150 – $200 each. The clamps were sitting around the workshop, the hoops were cheap plastic pipe, and I got some heavy-duty plastic for covers.

The plastic was clear enough to allow sunshine – these plants did well over the winter.

Now that winter is close to over and this experiment seemed to be successful, I’m preparing to set up a greenhouse out back by my original garden. I’ll get to that in the next few days … if the nice weather holds up. Need to move some brush and level the surface.