Anyone Starting Seeds Indoors Yet?

[zapfbroad]

when you get to your shed setup you might consider using some clear sheet wrapping to cut down on the heat loss/elec. use & increase humidity. your buildout reminds me of the hothouse i mentioned earlier, we built a ~36"X80" wood frame out of ~1"x18", it was planed to slope down from rear to front. we put an old top/bottom split screen glass door on it for light and access and it was sunken into the bed ~3" deep.  i kid you not, one year i went out & swept snow off the glass & still had growth in there. odd warm days we'd just leave it propped open partially. after the frost growin period we rotated the early tomatoes, peppers out & put in some of the low growing herbs into the bed with the top keepin away cats & squirrels nicely.

i love the rope lights, the non-led ones do put out some heat! i used an 18' run from walmart in a glass 4"x72" showcase one time, that thing ran strong for 2 years 24/7 with only a few nodes burning out, the employees were like wtf dude? & i was like, pfft 5 shelves of lighting for less than $20 & minimal disruption to all the glass/mirrors. 

[KaNuckles]

I def. need to put some film over it. To be honest I forgot. I have an old shower door i may try to use as a lid. It would be awesome to have some glass cases. I tried pests pellets ad even bought the plastic trays with domes. But I got a bag of pro mix for $8 and the egg cartons were free. Besides ....Im the kind of idiot who will spend $100 to build something I could have bought for $10. But I did alright this time. I only had to buy the lights, promix, and 1x10s. Everything else I had lying around. I have about $100 in everything. Real warming pads and the peats pellets and the domes would have cost more. Considering i have 200 plants in there and actually have room for about 100 more. I'm pretty happy with it.

[zapfbroad]

yeah projects like this should be comprised of repurposed & scavenged material for as much as possible

[Guest je_wc]

Having recently been through the class - anyone interested in gardening should check out their counties extension office on the master gardener program. You get a huge book on methodologies and best plants to grow in tn, chapters on everything you could imagine. After the class runs its course you can stay involved with monthly meetings where they swap plants that have done well in the area so that you can have a more successful harvest.

http://mastergardener.tennessee.edu/

[Ted S.]

seeing as lot of good ideas on this thread, good stuff so far ya'll!

[KaNuckles]

Having recently been through the class - anyone interested in gardening should check out their counties extension office on the master gardener program. You get a huge book on methodologies and best plants to grow in tn, chapters on everything you could imagine. After the class runs its course you can stay involved with monthly meetings where they swap plants that have done well in the area so that you can have a more successful harvest.

http://mastergardener.tennessee.edu/

That sounds awesome. I will definitely check into that.

[thundersnow]

http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd469/sig229er/catchment1.jpg

 

simple catchment setup

 

and to echo the others that have said planting outside just a little later...  I will second that motion.

Edited March 8, 2013 by thundersnow