Remember how now and green the raised beds look in the last post? When we woke up yesterday morning (3-27-2011), we had quite a sprinkling of snow on the grass!
It was all gone by the time we came home from Clifty Falls that evening. This is the kind of snow I like… pretty on the trees and grass; nothing on the roadways; and, gone by the end of the day!
That’s right… heated gardening beds! Last night John and I uncoiled the PEX tubing and snaked it through each of the beds. John tied it down to the steel mesh. Today we’ll fill it with a mixture of sterile potting soil, peat moss, and compost. Almost time to plant!
Not sure if you can make it out or not, but in the far corner of the long bed we have a weather station attached to a steel pole. It transmits (wirelessly) to display in the kitchen. It doesn’t do any data logging, but it helps us watch wind speed, etc.