As per our usual, Tom and I just couldn't wait any longer, and we went ahead and planted the garden, all of the flower beds (except one), and filled the pots on the patio with flowers a week too early. Shortly after everything was planted and looking stellar, we realized it was suppossed to SNOW the following week. SNOW! So, we decided to build some greenhouses to help support our newly planted veggies and flowers.
After setting the greenhouses up, and installing the lights, we measured a 4 degree temperature differential between outdoors and in the greenhouse. This may just be enough to carry us through the night of snow. (Yes, we really are that big of dorks that we have 2 outdoor thermometers).
We decided that the only thing that could make this better was a few Christmas floodlights. So in they went...our backyard looked awesome. A little like we were growing something illegal, but awesome none the less.
This totally helped. As the outside temp dropped, we maintained a constant 39 degrees in the greenhouse. Overnight, the outdoor temp hit 29 degrees (yes, we are that big of dorks that our outdoor thermometers will register the low and high) and the greenhouses stayed around 35-37 degrees! Well worth it!
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