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I just started lettuce, spinach, and parsley indoors last week in a
plastic green house (My mother-in-law, who has given me some very strange gifts in the past, gave me a four foot high, three shelf, plastic green house for Christmas last year - and it works great). After a few weeks I'll move the plants outside on nice days for a couple of hours. Once the plants are used to being outside, I'll move them to the garden. I built a little 4x8x4 greenhouse out of pvc and plastic. I'll put the plastic cover on when there is suppose to be freezing temps. As for tomatoes/peppers, here is what I do: I start the seeds indoors in those black plastic seed trays at the end of Feb. I put the trays in my green house (before the green house, I put the trays on top of the refrig). When the plants have a few leaves (4-6 leaves) I tranplant to clear plastic cups carefully only touching the soil and not the plant. I put a couple of holes on the side near the bottom of the cups for drainage. Once the plants get big enough and the days are sunny, I move the plants outside for a few hours. Once the plants are big enough and the days are warm enough (usually around beginning of April), I transplant the plants the black plastice pots that you get from garden centers. I leave the plants outside. The one thing I learned is that tomatoes and peppers love warm soil. The black plastic pots do the trick until the garden soil is warm enough - I need to water them just about every day. Around the beginning of May, I move the plants to the garden. Once in the garden, I cover the soil with something. Last year it was newspaper with grass clippings on top. That worked well until the grass clipping started to decompose and my grass stopped growing. This year I might try leaves or black plastic. Hope this helps, Bill wrote: I am starting my first garden season here in NC. I want to start some seeds indoor (flowers, herbs and some vegetables like peppers and tomatoes). When is the best time to start them? Should I have already started my tomato and other seeds that say to start them 6-7 weeks before last frost date? Do I need to use grow light for this or it is not necessary? Thank you, Genya |
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