Over the past few months (December - January - February) I have been formulating plans for my first summer garden at my new location in Mercersburg, PA. I have plenty of good land. We have about four acres that was carved out of a farm where alfalfa was being grown. The soil looks pretty good and the land is pretty flat.
We had a sunroom included in the building of our new house. I had thought it would be a good place to start my seedlings for my summer garden, but my plans were dashed when my wife, Linda, decided that the sunroom was going to be one of the places we would use for puppies. We (I, my wife, and our friend/partner Barbara) have nine German Shepherds between us, and expect to have at least three litters of puppies this Spring. That was when Plan B became necessary.
Plan B started out modestly as simply finding a place in our basement where I could start seedlings. But, my plans snowballed as I learned more about what could be done. Now, I am thinking about building a greenhouse in my backyard from a kit and setting up a hydroponics facility. I could do the hydroponics either in my basement or in the new greenhouse, or both.
I have been shopping on the internet for greenhouse kits and, more lately, for hydroponics systems and it seems that with a relatively small investment, I could do both. I may have to start out in the basement until the weather warms up sufficiently to work on putting up a greenhouse. I want to have my tomato, pepper, and other plants ready for transplanting by May 1, and don't know if I could have a greenhouse up and functional in time to use it this Spring, so a basement project seems the best plan to start with.
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