[Market-farming] greenhouse nighttime temperature

Bill Shoemaker wshoemak at illinois.edu
Wed Mar 4 08:25:41 EST 2009


I often let the nighttime temperatures get down into the 40's. I think it makes the plants tougher. They've always performed well. 

Bill

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>What's the minimum you would let your greenhouse get down to at night,  
>if you've got tomato seedlings in there (plus onions, a few greens)  
>but everything is on heating mats?  I'm banking on relying more on the  
>heating mats to keep the environment right around the seedlings warm,  
>instead of heating the whole greenhouse.
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>Rachel
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