In the meantime...

I'm preoccupied with other things, like wrapping up our summer season and preparing for the winter, so I haven't gotten my materials ordered or picked up.  In the meantime, there is some work to do for the greenhouse project.

I am still cleaning and storing some seeds away, but most importantly I am caring for tropical plants indoors until the greenhouse is ready.  Having collected a number of canna lily bulbs, I have started the plants indoors before they move into their new home.  Ideally, I would have preferred to have just stored the bulbs until I was ready to plant in the greenhouse, but I was worried about making a mistake when it comes to proper moisture, aeration, etc. when storing them.  But my house could use some lively colour anyways, and it's nice to get something started with the greenhouse project right away.

All I did was grab some old shelving units, peat moss and planting pots from the shed, pick up some storage boxes to act as the containers, and get the lilies planted and placed on the shelves sitting against the south-facing window in the extra bedroom in the house.

The lilies are planted into pots.  The pots sit inside the bins, which are filled with about one inch of water.

I'm not expecting many of the stalks to necessarily survive.  Some of the lilies are growing by extending new shoots up through the middle of the old stalks, but most of them seem to be closing off where they were cut, and will probably send up new sprouts.  This might actually help the plant to grow a thicker, larger root structure, which will allow it to grow more shoots, and thus give me more plants.  We'll have to wait to find out.

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