Pam's Greenhouse

04/16/2026

Them babies are growing 💗

04/16/2026

Them babies are growing 💗❤️💗

04/12/2026

Same soil. Same plants. Same seeds, same day. One bed got three inches of straw mulch in April. The other got nothing.

By July, they don't look like the same garden.

The bare bed dried out in two days after every watering. Weeds filled the gaps between plants. The soil surface cracked in the heat. The lettuce bolted. The peppers stalled.

The mulched bed held moisture for four or five days between waterings. Pull back the straw in July and you'll find earthworms at the surface — in the middle of summer. That tells you what's happening underneath. The soil stays cooler, the roots stay comfortable, and the plants keep producing.

🌱 One input. Four shifts:

- Moisture — the mulched bed needs watering roughly half as often
- Weeds — straw blocks light from reaching w**d seeds. Almost nothing germinates
- Temperature — soil under mulch runs noticeably cooler than bare ground next to it
- Yield — the plants in mulch outproduce the bare bed by a wide margin from the same starts

🌾 Which mulch to use:

- Straw — cheap, available, decomposes slowly. The standard for vegetable beds
- Wood chips — longer lasting, better for paths and perennial beds. Keep out of annual rows
- Shredded leaves — free every fall. Break down fast and feed the soil. Layer with straw for best results

Three inches, pulled back an inch from stems. Add more as it settles through the season.

One afternoon. The garden waters itself less and w**ds itself less for the rest of summer. 🌿

04/12/2026

You wait for the same warm weekend to plant everything and lose half your growing season before it starts.

Seeds don't all wake up at the same temperature. Some germinate in cold wet ground that would rot a bean seed in days. Others need warmth that won't arrive for weeks. Planting them all together means half are late and half are struggling.

Four windows. Not one.

🌱 Window one — early spring, while the ground still feels cold:

Peas, spinach, radishes. These crops want cool soil. By the time warm weekends arrive, their best window has already closed and spinach is weeks from bolting. Get them in early.

Window two — a few weeks later, once the ground warms past fifty degrees:

Carrots, beets, lettuce. They need workable soil but not warm soil. The window is narrow — too early and carrots rot, too late and summer heat makes germination patchy.

Window three — after last frost, soil above sixty degrees:

Beans, corn, squash. These seeds absorb cold moisture without metabolizing it. Patience here pays back in germination rate.

🌿 Window four — midsummer. The one almost nobody uses:

Once the longest days pass, the same cold-hardy crops from spring thrive again. Kale sown in July produces sweeter leaves than anything from April — frost converts the starches to sugars, which is why fall kale tastes different. Turnips and arugula fill beds vacated by spent spring crops and give you a second harvest from the same ground.

Count backward sixty to seventy days from your first fall frost. That's the resow date.

Four windows. Two harvests. The season is longer than most people use it. 🪴

04/03/2026

And it begins
Come on spring

03/01/2026

I am ready for an early spring...who's with me!!!
Planning seedlings now
Will have if all goes well 😂
Tomato's - Pineapple - Stripey-Mortgage Lifters-
Peppers- Jalapenos-
Squash- crooked neck- zucchini
Lettuce Cabbage
More!! Will keep you posted
Let me know any requests!!!

01/09/2026

Getting ready for spring
Let me know if you have a specific vegetable you want this year!!

07/18/2025

05/03/2025

Lots of babies!
Tomatoes
Bell peppers - all colors and jalapenos
Broccoli

04/29/2025

Have seedlings in the greenhouse! Opening soon.

11/26/2024

Closed until spring