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Seedlings Growing in The Basement

Project by Brad posted 214 days ago 1064 views 0 times favorited 18 comments Add to Favorites Watch

Photos are a marigold, a flat of petunias, and the last one is a dwarf zinnia.

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

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jroot

3198 posts in 778 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 214 days ago

Well done. Now, the challenge will be to have them grow slowly but not get leggy. Because we have a late planting time ( end of May or early June ), I don’t sow so early because they get too leggy inside as they stretch for the sun. Outside, they don’t get so tall and spindley. Nevertheless, they are fun to watch. Some veggie leaves can be eaten, if they get too tall.

-- jroot

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MsDebbieP

8102 posts in 1148 days
hardiness zone 5b

posted 214 days ago

oooooh there they are!! Little babies.. Hello there wee ones :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 214 days ago

I purposely started some early this time, just to see how it goes!
I love it..keeps me busy, too!!

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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Iris43

2184 posts in 778 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 214 days ago

Doesn’t the sight of those little seedlings just make your fingers itch? My seeds keep pleading with me to, “please, please, get me into some soil so I can start to grow!” I bought some new pkgs today, some ornamental cabbage, early giant imperial mixed larkspur and morning glory choclate. The pkg for the mg says they are pale milk chocolate coloured with unique marbled foliage. Um-m-m, I can’t wait…..................

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 214 days ago

Iris43,

Can you eat them???

ps. just joking

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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Iris43

2184 posts in 778 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 214 days ago

LOL The descrition makes them sound good enough to eat, doesn’t it?

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

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Josh

42 posts in 601 days

posted 213 days ago

Looking good brad.

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Robin

2302 posts in 411 days
hardiness zone 5b

posted 213 days ago

Brad, thanks for sharing some signs of spring. I keep telling myself, wait until March, wait until March, wait until March….

Iris, please post photos of those morning glories this summer when they are blooming!

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

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Penny

280 posts in 483 days
hardiness zone 5b

posted 212 days ago

Well done indeed Brad, those all look great.

-- Gardening is Great Therapy!!.....Georgian Bay area....zone 5b

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Bon

5154 posts in 928 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 212 days ago

I’m with Jroot on the seed starting indoors.It’s just a wee bit too soon to start them here.
Iris good luck with your choc. morning glory.I have been trying for two years to get them to grow and no success.I got small vines started last year but no flowers.Maybe I should try winter sowing them.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

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DavesYard

301 posts in 205 days
hardiness zone 5b

posted 204 days ago

Brad, very nice job. Can you tell me how much the ballasts for the lights cost? Thanks!

-- Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.. shine on you crazy diamond

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 204 days ago

Well, I never spent a dime…...they were salvaged. Hopefully they’re not too much.

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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Greenthumb

1801 posts in 968 days

posted 204 days ago

useless trivea but it might help some folks

last year I went to a hydroponics store and inquired about cost for full spectrum light bulbs, both flourescent and high pressure sodium (not sure if that the right word but they are very big bulbs) and was shocked at the sticker price…..in the hundreds.

Then I went to an electrical wholesaler and the bulbs that ranged from 30 to 300….........cost a buck and 17 bucks.Wholesalers wont always sell retail but being a friend of a friend I managed to buiy bulbs on the cheap.

-- Central northish Ontario

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 203 days ago

Wow, good for you Greenthumb…..thanks for that tid bit of info!!

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 167 days ago

I took some photos of how the indoor growing was going. So far, so good!!

We had a lot of snow today…first day of Spring!!

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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jroot

3198 posts in 778 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 167 days ago

Unfortunately, the photo is not coming out tonight. It would have been nice to see.

-- jroot

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Brad

101 posts in 384 days
hardiness zone 5

posted 166 days ago

Can you see the photos now….they are at the top of this page.

If you can’t see them now, I must be doing something wrong…..

-- Brad, http://www.container-gardening-for-you.com

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jroot

3198 posts in 778 days
hardiness zone 5a

posted 166 days ago

Yes, I can indeed see them now. Maybe I was doing something wrong, or expecting the photos to be in the post. However, they do look good. Lots of plants for your garden, when it becomes a bit warmer.

Thanks for sharing.

-- jroot

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