Re: HOLIDAYS
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- Subject: Re: HOLIDAYS
- From: L* R*
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:18:48 -0600
Jean,
Your gardening setup sounds amazing! We don't have a basement (a demise of
our locale in B.C.), so I am seriously eyeing one wall of our double
garage...probably the perfect temperature fo rthose who like it a bit
cooler, and the lights will help the others.
Thank you all for your ideas on starting seeds. I am inspired again, and
you are all to blame for the jungle I hope to be fighting this spring!
Just got the Fine Gardening magazine, and there's the instrux to build
plant shelving with lighting (as someone else had mentioned). My husband
loves pictures to go by, so he will have no excuses here!!
Lorraine
Zone 8
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> From: Jean Carpenter <backhoe@scan.missouri.org>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: HOLIDAYS
> Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 7:21 PM
>
> Barb:
> I have probably 100 feet of shelving in my basement right now and as
I
> plant seeds the footage increases. My shelves are on self standing legs
> 20" wide by 12 feet long covered with wire on the top. I have 2 lights
hung
> over some of them for the seedlings and some of them only have one light
> that is hanging higher for plants that are already grown that I am
wintering
> over. My husband built the shelves so I can rotate them from the
basement
> into the greenhouse later. Right now I have geraniums, cuttings,
ipomeas,
> house plants, and a lot of semi hardy perennials. In February I will
be
> planting tomatoes and annuals.
> I have a greenhouse and have been heating it this year but it is
only
> covered with plastic and I'm not trusting the heating system. We have
kept
> it at 50 degrees so far and have had some really cold weather. I heat
with
> propane. I have the greenhouse full of pansies and some perennial
cuttings
> and shrubs. In March I usually pot up my seedlings into 4 packs and then
> transport them into the greenhouse for growing on. I bought a hoop
house,
> 10' x 48'. I like it a lot but believe glass would probably be more
> economical to heat. Oh well, can't have it all at once or where would we
put
> it?
> Jean Carpenter,
> zone 6
>
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