Time to break out the hot mat!

Its seed sowing time for early vegetables. We use an electrically heated mat to get the early seeds up to temperature. This goes in the conservatory at first so we can control the ambient temperature around it and not have to heat the whole green house. The mat gets filled, seeds come up, move out, new trays refill and so on about 6 times during Feb and March. Its a bit of a process.

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This hot mat works well. These seeds went in on 2nd Feb and by 8th the first seeds were up.

Just posted my 7th episode about the seeds sowing preparation on my YouTube channel Growtoeat. When I told my eldest son his response was "Oh Good. We let the kids watch that when we want  them to go to sleep. They could do with a new episode."  Thanks, son. Glad to know this Grandma and Granddad (who live miles away) have some uses.  And are obviously, totally boring.

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