To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others."
Eugene Cloutier
This last storm had me working my ass off to keep the little greenhouse cleaned off.
I put my small greenhouse up last week, when the weather forecast had the future looking good. I got the spring bug and I'm ready to start planting. Reality came hard and gave me a good slap on the back of my head this week.
I did not get to planting any seed starts with the weather that we have just experienced starting last Wednesday night. For me, it was nothing but a long stretch of torture watching the snow and sleet build up on the greenhouse and then going outside to make sure it got brushed off.
I was very concerned that the build-up of ice and snow would collapse the flimsy greenhouse and ruin my garden plans for this year before they ever got implemented.
I have a small budget friendly, Walk-in Polyethylene Cover Hoop House. This will be the third season using this type of greenhouse and all I can say is, it's worked out better than expected and not bad for what I paid for it.
It has previously stood up well against the winds and rain of spring and has helped me out immensely on starting my own seedlings early and hardening them off for the six weeks I use it, from the beginning of April to the second week of May.
This year was the first time that it stood assembled during a snow and freezing rainstorm and it had me working my ass off to keep that snow cleaned. It did survive so now it's time to move on to the business of spring.
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