Christmas in Phoenix

**rainbowpauline r*@earthlink.net**

Hey all you Gardeners east and north of Phoenix AZ,

I wish that I could send you pictures of all the golden trees here.  
Some are golden from leaves about to drop. And some are golden because 
they are Acacias and full of yellow puff ball flowers.  Different 
seasons for different trees at one point in time.

This is part of Christmas in Phoenix.  Oley!

Happy Holidays,

Pauline

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>   3. grow lights (minifarms@aol.com)
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> From: Grow19@aol.com
> Date: December 23, 2005 3:13:25 PM MST
> To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject: [cg] do it yourself 'grow' lights
>
>
> thanks to everyone.  i have shop lights on chains attached to beams in 
>  the
> ceiling of the basement and grew a lot of seedlings last year.  i  was 
> hoping
> to find simple construction designs for a version to be used tabletop  
> in
> schools.  guess i can figure it out myself.
> Happy Holidays.
> judy
>
>
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> From: "Mike McGrath" <MikeMcG@PTD.net>
> Date: December 23, 2005 3:30:30 PM MST
> To: <Grow19@aol.com>, <community_garden@mallorn.com>
> Subject: Re: [cg] do it yourself 'grow' lights
> Reply-To: "Mike McGrath" <MikeMcG@PTD.net>
>
>
> Ha! I've lost a lot of seedlings trying!
>    Its VERY difficult to make legs that move up and down easily and 
> yet are stable, especially with kids around. Find a low ceiling or 
> shelves or something else in the school that can accommodate the 
> chains and go home early...
>                                                ----McG
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Grow19@aol.com>
> To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:13 PM
> Subject: [cg] do it yourself 'grow' lights
>
>
>> thanks to everyone.  i have shop lights on chains attached to beams 
>> in the
>> ceiling of the basement and grew a lot of seedlings last year.  i  
>> was hoping
>> to find simple construction designs for a version to be used tabletop 
>>  in
>> schools.  guess i can figure it out myself.
>> Happy Holidays./
>> judy
>>
>>
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> From: Minifarms@aol.com
> Date: December 23, 2005 8:27:33 PM MST
> To: community_garden@mallorn.com
> Cc: Grow19@aol.com
> Subject: [cg] grow lights
>
>
> Judy,
>
> Ours is a table top.  If you do not understand this then call me
> 806-744-8517.
>
> I made a box just a little longer than the shop light out of plywood.  
>  About
> 12 inches wide. Sides were about  5 inches high.  On each end I  put a 
> 1"x2"
> piece of wood about 30 inches high. Used screws to attach it.
>
> I drove a nail in the top of each 1x2.  I put a piece of chain,  
> little, from
>  each end of the light to the nail on top of the  1x2.    I would 
> raise the
> light as the plants grew, using the  links in the little chain.  We 
> keep the
> light just above the plants.
>
> Use whatever thick plywood on hand.  This works great and cost very  
> little.
> You could put two lights side by side and make the box wider if  you 
> need
> more grow room.
>
> I suggest that you start seed as above, set the plants out in the 
> garden
> about 3 weeks before the last freeze date using walls-of-water.  They  
> work.
> Hopefully, that will get things going well before school is  out.  I 
> substitute
> teach at a JrHi and trying to get a garden going there  but had little 
> luck.
> The teacher most interested is working on a master's  for the next 
> year or so
> and has little time.
>
> Ken Hargesheimer
>
>
>
>
>
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