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Question - What suggestions have you for growing plants indoors under lights?
I am preparing an area in my basement to start vegetables and annuals from seed. I would like to utilize fluorescent lights, and keep my costs to a minimum. Any suggestions?

Laura Case   USA- Columbus, Ohio  

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You can find photographs of equipment used to grow plants indoors, together with drawings and details of its constuction and use, on the web pages of a well know garden supply company. Click on the tabletop light garden assembly instructionsicon to see this information. You will find excellent drawings and construction details of their product. It also shows how the fluorescent lights can be adjusted for correct light levels for different plants and stages of plant growth. It is well worth investigating. There is also a photograph of the light unit using propagators to start off seeds. Click on the ultimate seedstarting kiticon to see this picture.

This company has these units for sale which you can buy online. Click here to buy the tabletop light gardenicon or here for the ultimate seedstarting kiticon.

Practically everthing you need to know, with excellent practical advice, on growing plants indoors is given in the new revised edition of the book Gardening Indoors by George F. Van Patten. Read the excellent 5 star reviews of this book on Amazon USA.


 

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