Today I was encouraged to spend less time on screens and media consumption. Not entirely sure how I feel about this challenge, but I have been wanting to spend some more time gardening and on activities that I’ve just felt too lazy to do. Back in grad school, I did a #365days project with some friends where you take a picture of yourself every day for a year. I’ve periodically thought it would be cool to do something similar with my gardening & greenhouse to help motivate me to do just a bit of gardening each day. So here’s to trying that out. Day 1. Not sure how far I’ll get, maybe I’ll stop tomorrow, but let’s see 😛 I’d like to give myself some grace here so if I manage to get 5 out of 7 days a week, that would be wild success in my book. 1 day out of 7 would still be quite successful too 🙂
So today it was hot, 85 F or so, and I spent some time in the greenhouse building a new 74″ shelf I got. My plan is to have 27 gallon sub-irrigated totes on the bottom, a 48x18x6″ plastic storage bin in the middle, and then some potted plants on top. I calculated I have 22″ and 19″ of height for the grow lights, which will be tight but hopefully doable.
In other news, my peach tree continues to give peaches. I didn’t thin them enough so they are small and have a lot of bugs/rot but still pretty tasty – generally way better than most store-bought peaches! I figure I have another week of peach harvest for the year.
