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I'll be trying out starting my own seeds indoors this year. I can usually
plant outdoors about the last frost date (raised beds / sheltered location and so on) so when should the 'maters go in the potting soil? -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 20:32:00 up 37 days, 21:14, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.21, 0.33 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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I'll be trying out starting my own seeds indoors this year. I can usually plant outdoors about the last frost date (raised beds / sheltered location and so on) so when should the 'maters go in the potting soil? I don't start mine until April. Start them any sooner and they just get too tall and lanky -- despite my high intensity light -- and threaten to get root bound (in the biggest pots I can manage to use and still fit all my plants under the lights). I wouldn't start them any earlier unless I was planning to set them out in tunnels or something of the sort. The go out when the expected night time lows are 50 degrees and I still have to cover them over at some point most years due to a late frost. (My garden is in the sunniest part of the yard, which is also a frost pocket.) -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (attributed to Don Marti) |
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"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message ... Anonymous said: I'll be trying out starting my own seeds indoors this year. I can usually plant outdoors about the last frost date (raised beds / sheltered location and so on) so when should the 'maters go in the potting soil? I don't start mine until April. Start them any sooner and they just get too tall and lanky -- despite my high intensity light -- and threaten to get root bound (in the biggest pots I can manage to use and still fit all my plants under the lights). I wouldn't start them any earlier unless I was planning to set them out in tunnels or something of the sort. The go out when the expected night time lows are 50 degrees and I still have to cover them over at some point most years due to a late frost. (My garden is in the sunniest part of the yard, which is also a frost pocket.) Have you ever considered making a portable hoop house? I think we Michiganders can add a month or two to the growing season by putting in a small hoop house in early spring, removing it when it gets warm, and putting it back up when nights get cold again. -- Pat in Plymouth MI Ray in Cadillac, Michigan (just moved from about twenty miles south of Pontiac) |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:28:53 -0600, Pat Kiewicz wrote:
Anonymous said: I'll be trying out starting my own seeds indoors this year. I can usually plant outdoors about the last frost date (raised beds / sheltered location and so on) so when should the 'maters go in the potting soil? I don't start mine until April. Start them any sooner and they just get too tall and lanky -- despite my high intensity light -- and threaten to get root bound (in the biggest pots I can manage to use and still fit all my plants under the lights). I prefer tall & lanky. I plant all but the top growing tip in a post-hole and then cover with cloches made from plastic one gallon jugs. This gives me a great root system that leads to a very rapid recovery. In about 3 weeks, the top growth is as tall as if planted normally, but the root system is much deeper than it would have been because the stem will form roots all along its length. -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 02:23:00 up 39 days, 3:05, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.25, 0.46 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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Ray Drouillard said:
Have you ever considered making a portable hoop house? I think we Michiganders can add a month or two to the growing season by putting in a small hoop house in early spring, removing it when it gets warm, and putting it back up when nights get cold again. Unless you are around to open it on some of those exceptionally early hot days (or can rig it to open automatically) you are going to bake stuff in there. That's what happened with my wall-o-water experiment a number of years ago. Most springs we have some *really* dramatic weather turns. My daughter (spring baby) was born on the day of an ice storm. One week later it was 80 degrees. And a couple of weeks after that, it snowed! -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (attributed to Don Marti) |
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