survival farm

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Use warming mats to heat your seeds | Alys Fowler

Rubberised pads are a cheap, compact alternative to a greenhouse

All my current fantasies are about greenhouses. I am tortured by emails from fancy manufacturers seducing me with modern glass cubes and cute-as-a-button wooden structures. Imagine standing in a greenhouse, I think, as I play Tetris with seedling trays on countertops at home. What starts off on windowsills quickly sprawls on to any flat surface.

So, for a fraction of the price of a greenhouse, I’ve been trying out BioGreen’s rubberised warming pads as a new solution. You sit the seed trays on flat plastic mats that heat the soil to 5-10 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature. If you stick a bit of recycled polystyrene underneath, and add in some cheap LED grow lights with a timer, you’ve got a pretty good propagation unit.

Continue reading...

* This article was originally published here

No comments:

Post a Comment

The wood around our French doors is rotting. How do we fix it?

A step-by-step guide to repairing (or replacing) rotten interior wood. * This article was originally published here ...