Work progresses in the garden

As noted in my last post, I had much to do in order to set my garden up for next year.  I can report that I made some progress in that regard.  When a project is this complex, you have to think what is the most important task at hand.  Clearly, that would be the assembly of my new greenhouse.
I had to first decide the placement of the greenhouse.  I chose the end of one of my old beds as it affords the best southern exposure for it as seen in the picture below.

The greenhouse will be the central hub of the garden.  I will use it in the early spring to begin seeding flats of spring crops and then I will use it to grow seedlings for succession plantings during the summer.  It will also afford me the ability to start late season crops earlier for transplanting into the garden in the fall.  I will have friends and my son coming over this weekend to begin the project.  I did some pre-work in the interim so that we could get as much finished as possible.  Having never attempted such a project, it is a little daunting when you begin to think of all the steps involved.

As you can be see in the picture, I have dug trenches where the 4X4's will be placed for the base of    the structure.  This will reduce the risk of the greenhouse moving or even tipping over in high winds. But first, we will put down a layer of crush and run stone in the trenches in order to allow the water    from rains or snows to dissipate from underneath the wood.  This will reduce the rotting of the wood over time.

Once the stones and the boards are in place, we will begin the process of constructing the greenhouse.  That seems like it is going to be a very long process as most of the build your own greenhouses are just adult sized tinker toys.  They are somewhat akin to IKEA furniture.

On another note, I seeded carrots about two weeks ago into a flower container I picked up at our local Big Lots.  I decided to use it for carrots given the depth and structure of the piece.  I mixed a cheap bag of top soil I bought on sale from Home Depot for the base product and mixed in some time release fertilizer really well.  Then I added some Amish seed starting soil into that.  I then spread a layer of the Amish soil on the top, poked spacing holes and added yet some more of the Amish soil into each hole.  I then seeded the holes, covered the seeds with the soil and sprayed them with water.

I am keeping them in a plastic FlowerHouse greenhouse that I have.  As seen above, they are doing quite well.  I am hoping to get more seedings of cold weather plants completed.  Unfortunately, the greenhouse construction is taking up most of my time right now.              

Well, thats all for now.  I'll post more pics of the greenhouse as we/I make progress.