{"id":4959,"date":"2025-02-16T17:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2025-02-16T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:44:52","slug":"setting-up-the-grow-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"Setting up the Grow Lights …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grow lights and heat mat are all set, yay!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Today, I excavated the grow lights and heat mat from the gardening stash in the basement, cleaned them, checked if they still work, and set them up. I still have to find a lid to cover the tray. I started six plants each of Thai hot peppers and Meadowlark kale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thai peppers will go in a large container on my back porch, but I might add a plant or two in the plot. I really only need 2 or 3 plants, but the seeds are two years old, and I want to be on the safe side. For me, peppers and eggplants grown in containers have always been doing much better than those grown in the plot. I think it is because the soil gets much hotter in a container, which those plants seem to love. It can\u2019t be the sunlight exposure as such, as my plot is full sun, and my porch faces south\/southwest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is my first time growing Meadowlark kale. High Mowing tells me it is a \u201cGerman specialty with impressive frost-tolerance\u201d, and it is apparently very pretty. All sounds good to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Full set-up for now<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Update on the leek babies (sown one week ago on February 9) <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Grow lights and heat mat are all set, yay!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Today, I excavated the grow lights and heat mat from the gardening stash in the basement, cleaned them, checked if they still work, and set them up. I still have to find a lid to cover the tray. I started six plants each of Thai hot peppers and Meadowlark kale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thai peppers will go in a large container on my back porch, but I might add a plant or two in the plot. I really only need 2 or 3 plants, but the seeds are two years old, and I want to be on the safe side. For me, peppers and eggplants grown in containers have always been doing much better than those grown in the plot. I think it is because the soil gets much hotter in a container, which those plants seem to love. It can\u2019t be the sunlight exposure as such, as my plot is full sun, and my porch faces south\/southwest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is my first time growing Meadowlark kale. High Mowing tells me it is a \u201cGerman specialty with impressive frost-tolerance\u201d, and it is apparently very pretty. All sounds good to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Full set-up for now<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Update on the leek babies (sown one week ago on February 9) <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, I excavated the grow lights and heat mat from the gardening stash in the basement, cleaned them, checked if they still work, and set them up. I still have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,3,44,40,21,26,2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-gardening","category-general","category-greens","category-planning","category-planting","category-spring","category-vegetables","category-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}