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Comments (24)I have the same shelf as zenman, but I don't use a heat mat. I buy the mylar blankets from the sports dept at Walmart. They are in a small box hanging on a rack and the cost is about $3. I drape this small blanket over the top shelf and attach it with clothes pins to cover down to the next shelf. I don't use any lights on the top shelf, and because heat rises, the heat from the lights on the second shelf heat the area above that shelf. The blanket holds the heat in and the tray with the dome cover holds the moisture in the tray. At the first sign of germination, I remove the dome and move the tray down under the lights and drop the lights down until they almost touch the plants. I grow in a building that is well insulated and will only add heat if the outside temp is below freezing. The lights create some heat, but I intentional grow tomatoes on a cooler shelf. Peppers, on the other hand, need to be on one of the open shelves that has a light under it as they will benefit from the extra heat that rises from that light. I also have my light fixtures plugged into surge protectors so that I can control all of the lights by just flipping a switch rather than plugging and unplugging cords. The sports blankets that I use look a little like aluminum foil, but are soft and almost transparent. When I first start the plants I use another blanket to wrap around the shelves because the silver color tends to reflect more light onto the plants (I think). Sometimes I remove it from the lower shelves and some years I just add a small fan to make sure there is some air movement on the plants. Later in the season, I remove it because I don't want the plants to be too hot, but I leave the top part covered and continue to use it as a germination chamber. I am attaching a picture, but the light wasn't on in the room when I took the picture so you have to look closely to see the top shelf which has no lights. I have watered from the bottom, from the top, and misted and I never have had damping off, so I can't say which is best. I would never mist if I wasn't running a fan though. Here is a link that might be useful: My shelf...See MoreRose Rosette again and need Ann's advice
Comments (19)The problem with RRD is there is no molecular test in part because the 'virus' or what ever it is has never been isolated. So all the analyst can do is look at symptoms. (There are times when I deeply envy the money the Europeans and Asians are putting into rose research and into rose disease research.) When I've had herbicide damage, it has lasted only one year. I do know someone who roses took three years to recover and there's a garden in western SC that had herbicide problems for at least two years running (although it was tended by volunteers who may have made the same mistake of using a personal sprayer that had had herbicide two years in a row). If they were my roses, I'd cut the scruffy canes way back. At least half way. IF it's RRD what will come back will be really ugly. If it's herbicide it will come back ugly, but the same kind of ugly as you've already seen. And you'll have reduced the titre of herbicide that is systemic in the plant. You will know in about three weeks if you'll need to take more actions. Let me know how this plays out. All too often, gardens way out in front of the 'battle front of RRD' do get infected by vagrant mites. It has happened so many times. We know that RRD is in your area. Good luck....See MoreShopping risk again...bad tags...need advice on False Indigo
Comments (9)Baptisia is a great plant. No pests, insect or mammal, have ever bothered mine. Mine was a gallon pot purchase and was in the ground two years before blooming. It's been in about five years now and its spread (Flop some might say but it is "solid" not floppy - looks like a full shrub. I don't stake/prop it up.) is about six feet. The size surprised me and I've had to move some plants out of its way. Worth it. Mine is in sandy soil, full sun. No extra water, gets compost top dressing in the spring as does the rest of the garden. It dies back in the winter. The stems look sort of "woody" as you've described but they aren't. The one possible downside is that it reportedly has a tap root that goes down for miles and so doesn't like to be moved. A friend of mine, however, moved one at his house and ended up with a healthy transplant and a healthy plant where he no longer wanted one. He's a laid back kind of guy so he decided he likes it both places....See MoreOkay, Friends, I need Advice - Again
Comments (3)It wouldn't hurt, that's for sure. The newspaper and mulch will help keep the weeds down and help keep moisture in. Anything organic added at the end of the season will help next years crop flourish....See More
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