Comments on: November photo assortment

By: Suzie

Suzie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:02:21 +0000

The goats look very happy.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:38:10 +0000

Sweet, I have one of those in Anaya’s closet. Maybe I should just hang a shelf in there underneath it.

Hopefully that lien isn’t too much…

Well you can always steal some plates, right?

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:55:37 +0000

Yep, one of those 18″ long fixtures you get for like $10 at a hardware store. They’re much more efficient than regular bulbs, and their coolish light is better for plant growth. The “grow light” bulbs they make for them might be even better, but I never bothered.

Don’t be jealous of the bike until I find out whether I can register it without paying off some dead guy’s loan =\

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:45:32 +0000

By the way, nice bike, I’m a little jealous maybe!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:44:46 +0000

Just a regular ole’ fluorescent?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:25:45 +0000

You don’t need to run a big 400W HPS or anything – a little 18″ tube fluorescent is what I’ve always used for starts/clones/etc. The tube should be 1-2″ from the tops of the plants, as light falloff is distance², and keep in mind that the tubes are much brighter toward the center than at either end.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:06:19 +0000

I would but I don’t have enough light. The big, south facing window is in Anaya’s room. I guess I could figure out how to hang a shelf there. I love this apartment but sometimes I hate it too! I could put them at our west facing windows but the kittens are just to wild at this point, they’d knock the starts over in a heart beat. Hmmmm, there are always grow lamps but they can be so expensive, argh!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:04:45 +0000

The photo of those peas is amazing! Cute goats…

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:15:20 +0000

heehee, it’s so cool that you’re doing all that in the city! My chicken coop roof isn’t done, but the floor is now 2″ of concrete with wire mesh embedded in it – we will feed chicken to zero weasels!

Why not start your winter stuff inside (’cept the garlic, they say it doesn’t like that)?

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:52:44 +0000

That gate makes me think of this shipping palette coffee table I saw recently, oh the things you can do with shipping palettes!

Hmmm, also reminding me that we need to get that clover planted pronto! Plus secure the new chicken coop roof and since we lagged on getting our kale, garlic and other such winter crops started ourselves, we need to go get some starts!