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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Food Stamps/ Food
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:00:45 -0600


I cover new transplants in the unheated greenhouse with cardboard boxes. I
lost several tomatoes one night from overconfidence, sure it wouldn't freeze
that night. With those windows you can pull back curtains to insulate the
glass, or cover starts with boxes or some other covers at night. The fans can
cool them in the daytime, hmm?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/30/2008 at 9:28 AM Gail Hoskisson Loper wrote:

>On 5/30/08 6:35 AM, "Liz" <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
>
>> The cool
>> temperature at which I keep the house may not be ideal for starting
>> things like tomatoes and peppers, but they seem to do fine.
>
>All of my starts begin their lives in unheated window boxes in my east and
>west downstairs windows. The new window boxes my husband built this spring
>extend out from the house five or six feet. On freezing nights we put a
>very small fan in each window to circulate warmer air from the house
>through
>the boxes. Otherwise I'm pretty sure the tender plants would freeze.
>
>During the days the boxes heat up to near 90 degrees and hover around
>freezing each night.
>
>The plants don't grow by leaps and bounds in that harsh enviornment but by
>the time the freezing nights are over they can go outside without any
>hardening off and don't seem to be set back at all when transplanted into
>the raised beds or row garden.
>
>The forecast is for 30 degrees again tonight but that is the last night
>that
>low out for a week. Hopefully I can put things out in the garden tomorrow.
>
>Last year's last freeze was June 8th. Maybe I'll give things another week.
>
>Gail
>
>
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