I decided to buy a shelf for my seed starting area rather than build something. My time is pretty precious right now and I found this awesome deal on amazon.com. This shelf was only $29 dollars, and it is nice and sturdy. It was so easy to put together too. I wish I would have bought a couple of these units because now the price is listed at almost $50. The beauty of it is that even through it is almost 5 feet tall with all four shelves, you can make it smaller if you need to, which is what I did. I only needed three shelves to fit under my cabinet.
I have moved my seedlings under my grow light for the last few days. I had several tomatoes germinate in like 5 days. I was waiting for this shelf to arrive and man they shot up quick. Now I know what it means to have "leggy seedlings". Luckily I planted so many and some haven't germinate yet. So I can get rid of the leggy ones if I need to and just keep the good ones. We will see how they do.
This is the shelf, I am very satisfied for the money I spent.
Fits perfect in my little seed starting area in my laundry room.
As you can see, the ones that germinated early got leggy.
5 comments:
Your "leggy" tomatoes can fill out and still grow nicely now that they're under full light :) Love the new table setup!
I don't mind leggy tomatoes at all. After they get a few true leaves, pot them up into larger containers (I use 16 oz. plastic drinking cups with a hole in the bottom for drainage) and bury every bit of that long stem down into the potting mix. Roots will grow all along the stem, making a nice sturdy plant. I've done the same with peppers and brassicas, all with good results.
Grrrr...I'm never going to make it past the CAPTCHA words this time :-( Why, oh why did Blogger do this to us?
Jenny - Thanks, I am really happy with the table too. I hope I can use some of these tomatoes. I will probably give some away too.
Granny - Thanks for that tip. I guess that is what I will be doing then. I don't know why blogger had to make two verification words either. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so hard to read.
Kris - you can disable verification. It's under Settings - Comments - scroll down and check No for Show Word verification
Jenny, thanks for that information. I have disabled it now.
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