Re: Hardening off
- To: propagation@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Hardening off
- From: m* l*
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:12:08 -0700
At 11:31 PM 3/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>My garden is on the East End of Long Island where I spend weekends only. I
>start seeds in my apartment in NY city and have not been able to figure out
>how to harden off my seedlings prior to planting them in the ground. My
>windows all face north, so there is no direct sunlight.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
A lot depends on what you're growing, but if it's something that's not
especially frost tender, what you could do is put your seedlings under a
flat tent/tarp/reemay or something like that, so that they get evening sun
and morning sun, but not direct overhead sun. After I transplant chiles and
tomatoes into the garden, I put those worthless 3-ring tomato "cages" over
each, then top the cage with newspaper, clipped on by clothespins. That is
another way of continuing the hardening off process. Margaret L
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