Comments on: Rack built

By: Time to divide | Tiny Farm Blog

Time to divide | Tiny Farm Blog — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:16:28 +0000

[...] a sunny, windy couple of weeks for the field to dry out enough to fully work. Indoors, with the new grow rack, there is still space, but there’s also quite a bit left to be started, including most of the [...]

By: P~

P~ — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:12:10 +0000

I thought you’d be interested, or could at least appreciate this. I was able to salvage two beautiful dual tube flourescent light fixtures from a remodel at my day job. The lights are the 4 foot type, and the fixtures not only come with concaved highly reflective backing, but are set approximately 12 inches apart. Does this sound like a good spacing to you? I assumed that wider was better than narrower.
Wasn’t planning on these, but now I will definitely be set to plant next spring even earlier.
P~

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:35:35 +0000

hyd: It’s from a plan in Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening and Landscaping Techniques (a book worth having). It’s 1.5′x4′, and around 6′ high. At some point, I’ll take some close-ups and put up measurements…

By: hyd

hyd — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:24:55 +0000

hi mike! love these. what are the measurements?

By: P~

P~ — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:38:45 +0000

I love the design your useing. Seems like your able to get a ton of sprouts going in a relatively small area. I don’t grow for market, but this is something that is definitely on my garden todo list as I am in a winter climate as well. Reuseing the lights is great too!
P~

By: ewa

ewa — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:44:59 +0000

great racks :) staying tiny is good strategy for keeping the profile :)