Is it silly to use a fan? [View all]
I'm hoping to get an A frame that my husband built long ago, up to start some seedlings today. He's been sick so its been longer than we've wanted, but even if we get a make-shift start, I'm determined to get it going. We haven't done so in quite a few years. Mostly we've gone straight seed in the garden beds, or we've bought plants at the garden center.
One of the problems with the plants from the center has occasionally been that they are not "hardened off". We get them nicely planted in the garden, but their little stems, unused to the wind will warp or once in a while snap in the first good strong wind. I don't want that to happen to our plants. However, I may not have the time to drag our plants in and out as I would like as they mature to re-planting size. So I had perhaps a silly idea...
Is it possible that setting up a fan to blow from various directions at various strengths of speed will help avoid this problem? That is often easier for me to adjust (I often work from 7 through 7) after I am home than bringing them in or moving them all out etc. Any advice?
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