It's official, I can't wait anymore I'm going to plant inside

[cmcanallen]

Wow, you have a nice setup. I just sprout in whatever I have around the house and get it out in the ground asap.

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[3forfree]

I won't start mine until the first of march. The garden will be to wet to plant until about the middle of may depending on how much snow we get this winter. DW has shown an interest in canning so we've bought jars to can with and will give it a try next fall.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Wow, you have a nice setup. I just sprout in whatever I have around the house and get it out in the ground asap.

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Thank you. I actually have two of those racks. I start by using two shelves on one rack, but after I repot the transplants when they are about 2.5 weeks, I will need all the shelves on both. We built them out of some cedar left over from a custom fence we built for a customer of ours. Since I can and freeze, we put in a BIG garden: Last year I had 15 rows 70' long, plus a melon patch, and the raised beds and nursery/tree pots up by the house.

I purchased the trays and inserts from the Greenhouse Megastore online a couple years ago. I get 2-3 seasons out of the inserts and 3-4 out of the trays (longer if they are cleaned right after I am done with them and kept inside). I started my plants the first year using the red cup system I see in your window! However, my husband is kind of a neat freak, so having things neat and orderly was a must.

I have an extra fridge I use for eggs out in my room in the barn (He made me a finished room with a tile floor and electrical in the barn). Anyway, all three crisper drawers, one shelf, and all but two of the compartments on the door are all full of seeds I've collected.

Here is a full view of the light stand from last year.




Garden season is my favorite time of the year!

 

[erinszoo]

Nice plant stand! Starting to wish my husband was insistent on things being orderly and neat, lol. Right now my plants are under lights in my kitchen and on the mantle in my living room. Not crazy about the light shining in my eyes while trying to watch tv but it keeps the cats out of the plants at least. I've been taking them out to the greenhouse during the day which seems to be a lot better for them but I can't leave them out there at night because it gets too cold. Sigh. One day my children will be grown and gone and I can take over a bedroom for my seed starting. Ha!

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Nice plant stand! Starting to wish my husband was insistent on things being orderly and neat, lol. Right now my plants are under lights in my kitchen and on the mantle in my living room. Not crazy about the light shining in my eyes while trying to watch tv but it keeps the cats out of the plants at least. I've been taking them out to the greenhouse during the day which seems to be a lot better for them but I can't leave them out there at night because it gets too cold. Sigh. One day my children will be grown and gone and I can take over a bedroom for my seed starting. Ha!

I had a spare bedroom for that very purpose for a few months. Son number two had moved out and the room was mine. Then, son number one came home. He stayed for nearly a year till he got his own place, but within 60 days of his leaving, son number 2 returned.
Moral of the story is....even once they are grown and gone, don't count your empty rooms and fill them with your stuff: You may just end up moving it all....multiple times.

We have a cat and our son (#2) brought one too. Luckily neither of them bothers the plants. Last year I had to use them in our unheated garage and the dogs did bother the plants. So I purchased a roll of the insulating foil bubble wrap and made sides and a back for the stand. I cut pieces to fit and attached them with thumb tacks. This served to do two things: Keep the dogs out and the heat in. Even when I use it in the house, I attach sheets to the sides lined with Mylar, to reflect the light back toward the plants: The ones around the edges grow straighter that way! Plus, I don't have to use any external heat to get the peppers and tomatoes to germinate: Just the humidity dome (clear plastic) lids made for the trays I use.

 

[stone_family3]

That is a nice set up, mine are in repurposed tin cans. I'm going to have to transplant my potato soon, it's getting huge and so fast. As are my onions, I have been having horrible luck with my celery regrowing, they grow great in the water, but once I put them in dirt they die off

 

[1MrsMagoo]

That is a nice set up, mine are in repurposed tin cans. I'm going to have to transplant my potato soon, it's getting huge and so fast. As are my onions, I have been having horrible luck with my celery regrowing, they grow great in the water, but once I put them in dirt they die off

Don't feel bad. Celery is one of the few plants that I just cannot seem to get to grow. I just can't seem to find the right time, place, etc to grow it.

I love repurposing things too. Two years ago their was a retail nursery that went out of business in a local community. My husband and I were driving past and noticed some people making big piles of nursery pots (3 gallon and larger) and burning them! We pulled in and my husband spoke with the people, who it turned out had owned the nursery that went under. Apparently, the city had given them a deadline to get the lot (about 3 acres) cleaned up or they would be fined. So, we asked if could come help clean up and take the stuff rather than them burning it. They said yes and we spent three full days making trailer loads of stuff. We got several hundred nursery and tree pots (all sizes), enough commercial weed screen to cover our raised bed garden area, a bunch of drip system pipe and parts, and a large quantity of shade cloth. Their were also a bunch of half dead Hawthorns, and other plants left over: I got about half a dozen that I managed to nurse back to health: Including one Harvester Peach tree.

 

[Carebearsmiles]

I started several flats of veggie and flower seeds. Lots of peppers, onions, carrots, toms, poppies, sunflowers, and more!
I'm so ready to be playing in the dirt outside in the sun. <3

 

[stone_family3]

Bright and early this morning I got some seeds in the dirt. Parsley, Basil, Thyme, Dill, Cilantro and multi-colored sweet bell peppers.