Planting for a 4-Season Harvest, Part 2
A Window
"Greenhouse"
A sunny window is my
"greenhouse." Eggplant, pepper, and tomato
go in a heated room; the others, more hardy, in a cool bedroom.
The tender seedlings are removed from the sill at night, but the room
itself is cooler than in daytime. Except on very cold nights, I
merely draw the shade between the glass and the comparatively hardy
crops. These methods give good results (I admit a greenhouse
would give better); if there are failures, it is my fault. Once
I forgot to take flats of eggplant and tomato out of the window at
night. Read
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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