I purchased a heatmat recently to germinate my exhibition sweet peas.
It produced the strongest rooted plants ever,bottom heat I suppose.
I have now resown the seed trays with various fast maturing winter
items such as mustard and japanese greens and three types of
rocket.They have all germinated well so far in the cold greenhouse.
I intend to try to produce salad crops throughout the winter with
minimum attention.
The point of this mail is to see if anyone has used this method of
trying to grow organic food to plug the gap until spring arrives,and
if they consider it worthwhile.
The cost element of heating does not concern me.
What would be of use is to try tested types of greens that others have
been able to bring to maturity quickly and which are tasty cooked or
raw and suitable for growing in seed trays.