General Discussion & Chat: My Winter Basement Garden, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Howdy.. Julia it loks like you have really good light there, and it also looks like we share the same likes in plants!

Amanda, I have cracks and crevices in one half of the basement and no windows to speak of.. no critters in the home atm, so can only offer this as a solution to your critter problem. get a long pole and some heavy straps , nail the straps to some studs if you can find any, and hang the pole aross it.
Also, use cheap clear shoe bags at dollar stores and get hangers for the doors and hang them there and set you seed pots in them and then get a clamp light with 6 or 8 ft cord and clamp it over the shoe bag.. you will have seeds starting like crazy. Last year I had to go down and turn on and turn off lights but this year I have timers on everyting, but still go down alot to see what is blooming. I have a hot humidifier I found at goodwill for 3 bucks in tropical room, and a cool air humidifier in big room, a fish tub of sorts in the north end garden and a small bubbler in the water plant tub on the south end. I have been finding lights at the good will stores that bend, clamp or sand, to hover over things that like warmth. I do feed everything since it is all still growing and vining and sending out new growth and blooming.
this morning glory was a germination test from seeds collected fall before last and it vined everywhere last year and bloomed and even set seeds..this is in February here..