The Buckets are in their new home (It's a muddy one)

We were pretty excited when the greenhouse was finished

The greenhouse was finished last Wednesday with the help of our wonderful volunteers. On Thursday, Alyssa and I planted the buckets with basil and spinach, 10 of each. We then moved the buckets from the shed to the earthen greenhouse. We used a golf cart to load the buckets and drop them off next to the greenhouse, we had to use the golf cart because the shape and weight of the buckets is awkward and our fingers would have fallen off otherwise. Then, I stood in the greenhouse as Alyssa handed them to me. During this process we lost a lot of water through the over-fill holes and the corner soon became a mudslide. Once the buckets were all

in, we both watered them, we put about 2 Solo cups of water in each bucket.That process took about an hour.

We were pretty muddy by the end, which we didn't mind.

Global buckets inside the earthen greenhouse

Today (Wednesday) I went to water the buckets again. AND WE HAVE SOME SPROUTS!

Which is exciting. The greenhouse is keeping pretty warm through-out the day and the plants dig that.

There is a problem with venting, however. It is pretty damp inside the greenhouse and when the sun hits the plastic covering it creates a lot of condensation, so it's a really moist environment which could cause problems later.

Also, the buckets aren't on a complete even ground, so some are sideways which causes water to escape the overfill holes on

one side of the bucket. I tried to make them as level as possible. With that said, the amount of water for each bucket varied from about 2-3 Solo cups.

Both of these have small sprouts but you can't really see them in this picture. (Just Imagine)