Indoor Grow Light Garden

Usually we are quite late in sowing seeds such as tomato and peppers that need a long growing season. Garden programmes advocate sowing seeds and leaving them on windowsills. It may work for some people but we have never found this really successful for bringing on seedlings. The seeds germinate but then because the seedlings have had to hang around inside the house until temperatures in the greenhouse warm up, (especially at night), they have grown weak and leggy.

 

Quite a few years ago we bought a daylight bulb which helped for a while but the bulb lit up the whole spare bedroom with quite a bright light so when it eventually gave up we never replaced it.

 

Browsing garden websites we then came across an Indoor Grow Light Garden. This seemed to be an ideal solution for us and so one was ordered.

 

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Attached to a tray is and height adjustable hood which means that it can be used for seed trays or taller plants which can grow on under the tray until they can be moved into a cold frame or greenhouse to harden off. The hood houses a couple of fluorescent light tubes. The underside is coated to reflect light back downwards into the tray to maximise the effect.

 

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We also bought the optional extra self watering tray. This sits on the base of the unit and has a water reservoir into which is dipped capillary matting. The matting draws water up to the base on which the plants sit as it is needed. I guess this could also be used for watering house plants when you go on holiday.

 

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As you may have spotted in the middle photo shown above we now have two of these systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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