The Deck Experiment | Sybaritica

No… we haven’t gone totally potty and installed an extra privy on our back deck (in fact, I’m pretty sure my wife will make me take the restroom sign down once she sees it).

Actually, this structure is going to be a horticultural shelter of sorts. My wife is not planting in the local community greenhouse this year, chiefly as it is a royal pain having to make the lengthy trek there to water plants every day or two. Instead, she had the bright idea of creating her own greenhouse out on our back deck after noticing that this corner of it receives about 20 hours of sun each day at this time of the year.

I am certainly keeping my fingers crossed for the success of this experiment, but it remains to be seen whether much will survive out there. The community greenhouse is a very large structure that retains the heat from the sun very nicely. Our structure is tiny in comparison and I expect that it will quickly lose heat on gray or rainy days. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained…

Right now the only ‘occupant’ is a large tub of earth that will hopefully yield a crop of daikon. My wife started them inside and at present they are just tiny little sprouts. I am not entirely sure what else she intends to grow but I will certainly keep you abreast of any developments…

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