The green house garden is growing well. Plants get bigger than you expect, then bigger still. I still think doing vegetables in pots is doable, but we've bought lots of cheap pails in order to have enough big planters for the larger ones, including anything that has vines (all kinds of squash and cucumbers get way bigger than tomato plants and spread). Most of them are now outside the green house for the summer. The trickiest bit is keeping them sufficiently watered in their pots and transferring them to the direct sunshine: it worked better when we moved them to a place in shade part of the day before moving them to a place with direct sun most of the day. The green house seems like direct sun, but the plastic actually filters.
Other tips: have big pots, and for beans, start them there. They don't transplant well. Those thick stems are really fragile.
Putting uprighted bottles in the pots helps some: we don't have to water quite so often, but the newer plastic bottles are thinner and not effective when turned upside down. Glass bottles work best but have to be juggled just a bit to make sure they are not too straight upside down (water won't drain out at all) or too much of an angle (it all drains out even when the soil is wet). Fortunately, a wide range of small angles works, and you'll find out really quick if it doesn't do what it is supposed to.
We have flowers and visiting insects (mostly yellow-jackets this week, moths last week) so we have hopes of fruit/vegetables. that would be more than we achieved with anything but peppers and tomatos in the past. We also keep the green house door open now that it's plenty warm outside, so hopefully the insects will go visit the plants inside as well as out.
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