I don't know about it being SPAM. I wonder if someone had a large container of water, and used a heating coil to prevent the water vessel from freezing, would the semi-warm water help keep the plants in the greenhouse from freezing?

Hi Daria, what varieties of garlic do you sually plant? I planted a small amount of "Spanish Roja" last fall for the first time, it didnt get as large as i thought it might but it did "ok." this fall i will plant it in an area that gets more sun, and i will amend the soil more with compost/organic material. i was also confused as to watering,fertilizing etc etc etc also for this area, i found a lot of good info about that stuff on the G & H Garlic site, they are located in Littleton, NH. I will also be planting other varieties besides the "Spanis Roja" next fall, fresh garlic is starting to show up at local farmers markets, so i'll probably use some of that for seed this fall also.

Have driven by the Hope home high on the hill in Palm Springs many times in the last 40 years of visiting the desert. Those photos (which I saw last week) was the first time I've ever seen the property at eye level. Pretty amazing and much more impressive than from at the bottom of highway 111. Jodi-

I had a light brown fungus start to grow on a few of my seedlings I lightly scrapped off the root, it was above the root system actually, not directly on the roots, and I dipped it in a hormone with a fungicide. That happened to about 10 out of 22 seedlings I had. 3 out of the 22 roots rotted. The ones I scrapped and dipped in powder hormone I did to about 5, I sprayed the other 5 roots with daconil, some I had scrapped before I sprayed with daconil the other few I just sprayed. I planted them all in 1" terracotta pots to help the soil dry faster . The plugs I was growing them in were wet, deep down in the plug. More so, than it probably should have been. I think it was from leaving the humidity dome on after they sprouted. The ones I dipped in the hormone, after potting them in dry media. I waited a day in hopes the scrape would have healed over just a little before I gave them water again. that was about 5 days ago and they are all still alive except for the 3 whos roots completely rotted I tossed those. I'm just hoping for a high germination rate with the newer seeds I have coming in (they are from adenium center the first ones are from adenium king and next time I would like to try siam adenium just because. even though they are kind of pricey.) I want to take some preventative measures in hopes I don't have the same first time experience. I am going from full spectrum florescent lights to led lights in a grow tent. using a fast draining media. I also have a plug tray where the cells are square, there are 50 plugs in the tray each one could comfortably hold two seeds maybe 3 if I crowded them. What I really like about these plugs are the cells are a lot shallower than the 72 round cell plug tray. I am hoping the water will evaporate faster. at least the water that the seeds don't use. I am around enough to make sure they don't completely dry out in the very first stages of germinating them. I'm not using a heating mat for all the trays (3 trays) i can only fit one one the pad I have. I just want really good success I plan on using these for grafting stock in the future. I just have a lot of time to think about it. They take forever, it feels, to get here from overseas. I am also finishing my A.S in horticulture so when I am not around plants, or dealing with plants, I am studying and researching plants. Adeniums are new to me, hadn't heard of them before this year, I've become a bit obsessed with them. it's the perfectionist in me.