A large part of season extension is in starting seeds indoors. For this purpose, I'm going to be starting seeds indoors this year and see how the transplanting goes. I don't have all the tools for full season extension caterpillars yet, so this is a quick, easy and cost effective way to get a jump start on the growing season. Once the beds have full season extension features, indoor seed starting will help extend even further into early spring.
For starters, I wanted to find a stainless steel shelving system that would hold up for years to come. I looked around and the Seville SHE14305-5 the best. It can be found on Amazon here:
The shelve arrived and my daughter Jill and I went about assembling it. Jill's only 8, but she's my big helper in the garden. :-)
The rack in the box.Once we unpacked it, it was a pretty clean and simple set of components.
There are no tools other than a small and thin hex spanner for getting the wheels attached.
The assembly was painless and straight forward. I will just note that you need to be aware of the cylindrical corners of the shelves. They are tapered to make them easier to position properly on the vertical supports, but if you lower the shelve the wrong way around, you'll spend some time trying to figure out why things don't fit. Basically, if the parts don't just snap and slide together almost effortlessly, you're doing something wrong. In our case, we assumed the shelves would have the larger lip side facing up, but that was not the case, so it took us a couple of minutes to figure out the problem. Total assembly time should be about 20 minutes.
The ONLY tool we used, and it really isn't needed, was my rubber mallet to gently tap the shelves to the proper level.
The shelves are ready. Now we need to get the lighting to go with it and the seedling trays to fit before we begin.
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