Re: [gardeners] Seed Starting Box
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:36:38 -0500
Around here the Mennonite farmers use bottom heat -- a layer of manure. It
need not touch the planting soil. It heats up pretty effectively and
accomplishes early sprouting from a different angle. Lucinda, Canada
At 07:43 PM 03-01-99 PST, you wrote:
>I want to build something to get bottom heat to start seedlings but am
>too frugal to purchase a heat pad. I remember long ago reading about
>building a box heated with regular incandescant light bulbs, but could
>find nothing during a trip to the library today. I think I have all the
>necessary parts hanging around: pine, old porcelain light bulb sockets,
>rigid insulation, plexiglass, etc. However, I dont remember the
>specifics. I am thinking of making something large enough to hold two
>ten-twenty trays (@ 400 square inches).
>
>Has anyone built one of these? If so, do you have any tips? E.g., how
>many bulbs would one use and what size? Is 7 1/2 inches deep enough
>(that is the widest pine I have, though I suppose I could glue up some
>if I had to).
>
>Bill McKay in E. Mass
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