Seeds Starting

farmgal · 2013-02-20T10:16:02Z

While I am currently sitting under another new five inchs of snow, the longer days of sunlight is reminding me that soon, very soon, its seed starting time!So I have a goodly number of pots winter sown that are just sitting out beside my shed under a good natural cover of snow, that in the next few weeks will be knocked loose and moved over to the hot side wall of the little barn to get a jump start.I love about wintersown is that because they are done in pots/tubs etc, they can be moved around easily but it also means that things that need the cold temps outside to germate are not taking up room in my fridge, and yet its easy to transplant them afterwards to where I want them in the gardens. Anyone else winter sown and if so, did you like it, do you use it for lots of things or just a few? In the house, I keep it cool, cool enough that I would normally need a seed heating mat, but they are quite costly, and so I use the outdoor heating mats for the hounds as a heating seed bed, its never failed me yet and as its waterproof, and if you want the soil at its warmest, you just put it directly on it, if you want it a touch cooler, just put a tea towel to cooler and a thick hand towel for even cooler.. I have even been known to do half a box on and half a box off.This is also the same in floor heating that I use to heat my sleeping half of the chick/duckling/pullet etc starts, I don't use heating lights, I use infloor heating and the results are awesome. I just put it under their area's but only half, that way they can choose if they want. I get mine on half price sales twice a year at the local TSC, my oldest is coming six years and going just as strong as my newest one.. they seem to have staying power

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Siberios

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03/04/2013 12:11 pm

I'm and instructor for the college and will be putting on an 8 week course for the Inuit to enable employment in the mining field. Pain in the a$$ being away from home but a relatively good time to be up there. I've worked on an off up there for quite a few years and love the country... just not the winters. I'll be just south of Rankin Inlet. Looks like Rankin is going to get busy with the mine wanting to open up near by.

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Topic starter 03/04/2013 12:17 pm

yup, that makes sense..I miss lots of things from up north, but the winter is not one of them 🙂

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