In article , Pat Meadows
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:17:56 -0800, (Jan
Flora) wrote:



I'll be starting my indoor winter tomatoes tonight, along with
stuff that'll go out in the greenhouse when the 'maters are done
out there.

For the kitchen window, I'm starting:
Siberia tomato - 2-1/2' tall plant
Gold Nugget tomato - compact determinate
Oregon Spring - compact determinate
Northern Lights - same, same
Grandpa's something or other Pepper - a cute plant w/semi-hot peppers

Sounds good.

We have the most annoying windows in this house - quite new
ones, installed just before we bought the house. The
window-sills are only about 4" wide AND there's a ridge down
the middle of them, God knows why. NOTHING will go on them.
Nothing.

Can you lay something on the windowsills to shim them up to level,
so pots can sit on them? I'm thinking of blueboard (insulation) just
because it's easy to cut. How high is the ridge in the middle of the
sills? (What a PITA, btw!!) Could you get something and cut a kerf
down the middle of it, so it'll straddle that ridge and be a level surface?

My windowsills are all 8" wide, because we still live in the basement
(sore subject -- the upstairs two floors are dried-in, but unfinished),
and our basement walls are cinderblock. Hence, wide windowsills.
It's like living in a bunker in the winter, but it's warm...

[...]

We still have to build the hoophouse.

You're going to go nuts when you get that built. Leave yourself
room for a comfy chair and a place to put a cup of coffee. And a
radio, so you can listen to NPR while you fuss with your plants : )
Oh, and use your *verticle* space. I want to scream when I see
people only using the bottom 3' of greenhouse space, and not growing
vining varieties, hanging plants or anything. =:-O

Pat