Seedling House

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The seedling house is the "cpu" of the greenhouse operation. Through it will pass the material that will be turned into blooming plants for the new spring. Seeds and cuttings are propagated here. This is the beginning of it all.
The first and second image on the right are the seeder. Almost all the seed that gets sown at Burt's Greenhouses goes through this machine. The top image shows the little nozzles that will pick up the seed and the bottom image shoes the tubes that the seed gets dropped down.
You will have to expand the image at the right in order to see the seeds attached to the nozzles on the seeder. They are held there by suction and then a little puff of air sends them down the tubes to the seeding tray.
The dry flats in the foreground are Alyssum. We seed them directly with the seeder in there final container. They will reside here for about two weeks and then get moved to the outside beds.	Mar. 14
Ruth is tagging the Alyssum as it goes through the seeder. She then carries them up and places them on the floor before the next ones fall off the conveyor!
The black pots in the background have patio tomato seedlings planted in them. They will soon grow to a very large size and by the time selling season arrives may even have some fruit on them!	Mar. 14
When the weather is very cold, like it is now, we get visual evidence of the venting of greenhouses. This vent can remain open almost the whole day and since this is the seedling house it is extra humid with lots of vapour moving out.	Mar. 7
Sometimes the vents have unlikely uses! This is Rex with a birds eye view of the seedlings.
The hanging baskets are now hung in their final location. The rest of the space is looking full and we will soon have to start moving seedlings to other locations.	Mar. 7
Looking to the North, hanging baskets in the foreground with seedlings behind. The Hanging baskets will be hung as soon as they are ready.	Feb. 15
We take many cuttings every spring and they all travel through the seedling house. These cuttings were taken about 4 days ago and are looking quite good. They are covered up in the sunny weather with a white porous polypropylene material. They must have high humidity at all times or they will just wilt and die.	Feb. 8
This is the south east block of seedlings. It can be compared to the image from Jan 27 above.	Feb.8
South west block of seedlings. Lots of green is starting to show up on the flats. We like to see that!	Feb.8
Here are some of those seedling after they have germinated. Picture taken Jan 30.	Jan. 30
Here are freshly planted trays. The ones in the foreground have just been put down and the ones behind (dark colour), have been placed down in the previous few days. Taken on Jan 27.	Jan. 27