With all the tremendous stress in everyone's lives,wanted to send along my recipe for stress relief-getting back to nature via gardening and working in the greenhouse.My older son and I recently set up very nice 10 by 20 greenhouse with extra-wide entry and exit doors and he has plenty of egg-laying hens in two very spacious coops and had a friend come over from SShore,wanting to pick up few dozen farm fresh eggs and we chatted with her and turns out she knows at least two folks who have recently died,most likely CoVid19 victims,young in age,think one was maybe 40,the other about 38 or so,neither was anywhere near elderly and debilitated but think both had some co-morbidities(renal disease,liver disease,etc)and it was hard to fathom losing folks that young and older son showed her our chicken yards,large vegetable garden and greenhouse.I made sure to keep more than 6 ft distance from her and I busted my tail working on not only moving plants from greenhouse to garden but also loaded up at least 30 4.1 gallon containers(just arrived today)plus 10 5-gallon buckets I picked up at Harbor Freight.We tried last year putting our plants directly into native soil and to our dismay,we must have had a virus in our soil(tomato mosaic virus,possibly)or a fusarium wilt,neither of which has a known remedy,other than planting in another area and we are experimenting with container gardening,results look extremely promising with about a dozen Better Boy tomato plants in various sized containers and they look incredible.The stress relief part is getting into greenhouse,checking out the incredible progress of our seeds that are now plants,some over 14 inches tall and I spent some time transplanting plenty into either the large containers or smaller pots while we get garden ready and get more containers filled with good soil.Just got 30 fine containers,have another 30 coming tomorrow and once finished,we will probably have well over 300 containers filled with lotta fine heirloom plants,exotic watermelons,squash,etc.We like getting rare and exotic seeds and once the Farmer's Markets open,older son should have more than ample goods to sell!!Awesome stress relief!!
Mandevillian
Mandevillian