Re: [gardeners] Bulb planting and stuff

Cheryl & Erich Schaefer (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:51:03 -0400

>Liz wrote:
>
>> Since your daughter moved out you now have another room you can drape
>> in lights for seed starting.
>
>If you find yourself applying aluminum foil to all the walls, ceiling and
>windows.....if you find yourself ordering three HID lights by mail order
>(anonymously, of course, since the DEA is always watching)....if you find
>yourself installing benches and rigging up a mist system in your
>daughter's room.....THEN you are addicted.
>
>Catharine, who is considering all of the above for the guest room....

Buying HID lights is no joke. There is a VP at Ithaca College who was
visited by the authorities after buying lights. He is actually an annual
nut and starts everything imaginable from seed in several greenhouses but
he really had to explain himself. Be careful, friends. Big brother really
is watching, particularly, these days, if you grow certain poppies.:-) or
is it :-(

Cheryl Schaefer, Schaefer Yarns
Beautiful hand painted fibers
schaefer@epix.net
Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY