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About ghsebldr

I am a retired nurseryman that couldn't get the dirt out from under my fingernails. I have built, operated and sold 2 nurseries in the last 25 years and now grow for my local farmers markets as well as muanufacturing some really strong easy to build and reasonably priced greenhouse kits. My passions are both growing plants to sell and share with others and making and selling greenhouse kits to folks that want to carry their passion to the next level. No this site is not going to be about selling my stuff, it's going to concentrate more on sharing my methods of enjoying my passion in plants and greenhousing.However if you want a greenhouse I'll be happy to sell you one.

New pics, almost full grown

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Here are a few new pictures of the begonias and others as they have grown. In a problem solving mode at present. Trying to figure out where the fungus came from that attacked the calibrachoa baskets and working to clear it up. may have to cut back a BUNCH of cali baskets and let them start over. Just frikkin great. Didn’t I tell you in the beginning of this blog that growing is for masochists? Seems there is some major setback or outright failure every year, how much fun would it be if everything went as planned.Not too many aphids this year though. There that’s the silver lining to my present cloud.

Golden Picotee Illumination Basket

Orange Illumination Baskets starting to fill out

Peaches and Cream Illumination

Cali Pink with an eye, about half grown

a few hundred white bacopa at $2 each( I know too cheap)

Love my Sanvatallia great trailing plant for baskets

That’s it for today. Sorry for so few posts, thought I would have more time to share this stuff while it grew. I don’t. Happy planting

 

A Busy Spring

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It’s been a busy spring. We have 5 full greenhouses already and can’t wait til the markets open the end of this month. Several hundred calibrachoa baskets already starting to take up too much room. There is something about space in a greenhouse (or 8 greenhouses) you always think there should be room for just a few more baskets. My new 20×40 Shop Only greenhouse (the house  I use to manufacture my greenhouse kits, that is never supposed to be for plants) is already starting to run out of hanging basket space.

I Love Spring

Calibrachoa pink with an eye

My favorite new addition this year. I hope my baskets turn out as stunning as the ones I saw at The Basket Case Greenhouse in Long Beach (my old nursery). Fred and Nancy did an amazing job on all of their baskets last year but this one really stood out for me.

Lewis Ciunty Home and Garden Show in mid March. 10x20 demo house

Any greenhouse owner will probably notice the empty bench space in the above pic.and say, look at all that empty space he has, what a waste. I’m sure it was filled up within a few minutes of this picture

Do I really have that many all yellow baskets?

And finally here’s what we did over the last 2 weeks.This is what 8   120 foot long greenhouses look like, in the rain, just before Emily and I loaded them onto a truck.

Bows bent compliments of Sean Mathers, thank you Sean.

A Few New Pictures

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We’ve been really busy planting. Below are some of the pictures. I will try to arrange the fuchsias and the begonias in before and  after pics.

Fuchsia starts Feb. 9th

Fuchsia starts March 5th, just under 4 weeks from planting

Growing on the floor (up on overturned empty flats) Dinner for the slugs

Wave petunias 6 paks (to be shifted up later) on the right

Annual cutting plants. All patented, with tags 15 cents each for tag and royalty, ouch

That’s it for today. Thanks for coming to my blog.

Excuses Excuses

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I have lots of them, but to be honest I’ve been very busy with the greenhouse manufacturing part of the business and at the same time filling up the greenhouses with plants. I promise to post lots of full greenhouse pics in the next 2 days. Thanks to the loyal readers. I honestly didn’t think anyone was reading anyway. Sorry to those of you who were.

going to market

Never too young to grow for Market