Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I've grown greens indoors, and didn't use special bulbs. I used two shoplight fixtures the length of my containers. Each two-bulb fixture had one cool light bulb and one warm light bulb. This works great for lettuce and radishes, I don't know whether these bulbs would work for things like tomatoes and peppers. I also used metal shelving, and hung the lights on chains from the shelf above, so I could adjust the lights as the plants grew. I kept the lights maybe three or four inches above the plants (I recommend the lights be 1" from the plants, and left on 16 hours per dasy - JK).

On Aug 13, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Linda Harper wrote:

> Yes I think we are using daylight but it may be sunlight. We got the kind that had the highest lumens. I had enough room for a pot of baby greens on the side of it in dirt and they grow wonderfully. It's too hot outside right now for lettuce but this works great! We had lettuce last December in our basement. We bought some metal shelves to put them on so you could really do this in any room.
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> Linda
>
> From: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sharon
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 10:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Greenhouse growing of greens
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> This sounds great and I do have a daylight basement. Being in the PNW, lettuce doesn't live through the winter here outside and gets incredibly expensive.
>
> Are you using daylight bulbs in your system?
> thank you
> SharonM
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> Wonderful!!!!
> Linda this is good thinking!!!
> http://www.blogtalkradio.com/doctorprepper/2011/08/13/family-garden-doctor
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Harper
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:57 PM
> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Greenhouse growing of greens
>
> If you only want a greenhouse for lettuce and have a basement, we grow
> lettuce in our basement under shop lights and using Styrofoam to float the
> lettuce on top of a hydroponic reservoir. We used those plastic containers
> that go under your bed. I also grow baby greens under the shop light in
> soil.
>
> Here's the website where we got the idea: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs184
>
> We did add an aquarium air rock that you can buy at Walmart to help aerate
> the water and they lettuce likes that better!
>
> Linda in South Carolina
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