Note: The monthly costs noted include the up front costs of all lights needed for 4 trays of seeds, plus the ongoing factored electricity costs based on 10 years of use (rates adjusted) using them a couple months per year at 18 hours/day.
I just wanted to thank you for these wonderful videos! I’ve been binge watching your channel for 2 days. I live in Maine ( zone 4) so it’s very nice to hear from another grower in a colder climate. I’m getting my first greenhouse this spring and hoping to also start a small backyard nursery. So I can’t thank you enough for all this information. Please keep making these wonderful videos!!!
Fraser Valley Rose Farm. No speciality yet. We have a lot of open farm land and I grow a lot of perennials outside and Orchids inside. Mostly Phragmipediums. Someday I would like to have a profitable small nursery but I think I still need to learn a lot. I plan on working/volunteering at our local nursery this spring. I’m hoping by hanging around there I can learn more about growing and about what local people want to buy. I love roses and hope they can become my specialty. This summer I’m redoing part of our landscape and plan on adding some new climbing roses. And probably try propagating since I will have a small greenhouse. Again thanks for the videos!!!!!
Thanks Barbara. With how fast lighting tech has progressed, it's interesting to see how well the T5 fluorescents still perform and compare with the LEDs. Since then, I've done a bit with an inexpensive Mars LED that I've enjoyed - but in spring I may even go back and add some more T5s for seed starting.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I bought the lighting sets from Veseys.com It was a gift to self when I retired. My plan has been to grow perennials from seed and at some point some veggies. I delayed this year because I'm still recovering from a broken arm and a surgical repair.
Buying the lights and the cost per month to run them is more expensive than I thought, seems to be cheaper to just buy fresh tomatoes from a local farm and support the farmer.
Maybe so - on the other hand, the indoor growing (in this case) was focused on a few weeks of "head start" for tomato seedlings, with the expectation that they'd be grown and producing outdoors for the rest of the season.
Yeah - hard to believe that something so intuitive and natural as a handshake can be reprogrammed to illicit a negative response. Hopefully we can shake it all off sometime soon.
