Though located in a stately pre-war building on New York’s Upper East Side—a neighborhood not generally associated with laid-back, loosey-goosey vibes—the sunny three-bedroom, three-bath apartment that Drew Barrymore shares with her two daughters, Olive, 10, and Frankie, 9, is anything but uptight. Her two cats and two dogs make themselves at home on the sofas, her girls regularly spread out their messy art supplies all over the dining room table, and even Jeremy, the family’s bearded dragon (who, by the way, is female), is allowed to roam free.
don’t skimp on light when starting seeds
21.07.2023 - 22:21 / awaytogarden.com
STARTING SEEDS is not hard…unless you skimp on light, or your timing is off. Sorry, friends, but your windowsills just won’t do, and over-eager “headstarts” usually result in past-their-prime seedlings.For the timing, consult my Seed-Starting Calculator, customizable to your own location according to final frost date. But first…
I recommend investing in a reflective hood that houses high-output fluorescent tubes called T5’s, or T5 HO’s. I can’t wait until LEDs for seed-starting get a little farther along in development, and the prices come way down, since LEDs will put out even more light with less heat. (But good news there: It’s progressing fast, and there are even LED tubes engineered to fit into our T5 hoods, so only the bulbs will need replacing.) Meantime, T5’s are a big step up from old-style fluorescents, which I have stopped using–providing up to eight times the light (more energy efficiently, too).
How many flats will you have under lights at any one time? Remember: No need for supplemental light before seeds sprout, and once weather begins to stabilize, you can carry seedlings out by day to enjoy natural light, as I do. That produces stronger plants; the illustration (with data from plant physiologist Dr. Thomas Bjorkman of Cornell) shows why, since no artificial lights can match nature, even on a cloudy spring day. It also saves lighted space indoors.My biggest gridlock is late April, when my cool-season crops (like some Brassicas) are in their last week or two inside, and my warm-season ones (like tomatoes) have just sprouted, needing light as well. Nevertheless, I get by with lights to accommodate about three flats at any time—again, because I move things outside to a sheltered bright spot on stable weather
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