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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed starting greenhouse
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:09:51 -0500
We have a woodstove in the basement so most of the time it
is in the 60s at least, but here is what I am toying with this year. Our furnace
boiler is down there also, and there are both return and outflow release
faucets. I am thinking of hooking up hosing to run under an 8 x 8 plant table,
with 400 w metal halide light overhead. Hot water would flow anytime we used hot
water or hot water flowed to house heat, anytime the circulator pump came on. (I
am getting real tired of flickering and burnt out flourescent tubes, and
adjusting the height.) My actual concern is it being too hot. I could manually
control it by turning the faucet to only let a little out. I could also just run
the hose under half of the table so that the bottom heat was less for
some.
The other issue is having a few plants (onions) that should
be shorter day, but onions are pretty cold hardy and I think I could just put
them out in the unheated hoophouse once they were up, under row cover, and they
should be fine?????
Beth Spaugh From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of tonitime AT juno.com Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:38 AM To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Cc: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seed starting greenhouse Hi Andy,
Unfortunately, my large basement seed start area can get
quite cold at times. I think that when tomatoes get too cold, they turn more
purple on stems and under leaves. Some say that hurts yields - but mine
seem to bear as usual. I am interested to hear of other's experiences with
early cold and yields. If it made a difference, i'd make a warm tent in
there.
Toni
I was wondering if anyone else had tried growing seedlings at such a low
nighttime temperature?
Andy
King
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Re: [Market-farming] Seed starting greenhouse,
tonitime, 01/10/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Seed starting greenhouse, Beth Spaugh, 01/10/2008
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