Ian Builds a Nursery

As you may know, we're expecting a baby this spring...lots of babies, in fact.  Baby chickens, baby ducks, baby human...this blog entry isn't about any of those.

This past weekend, Ian got busy building us a nursery for another group of highly anticipated spring babies - our baby garden plants.  This Christmas we received a seed starter kit to begin growing our vegetable plants inside.  This will give us a jump on the Ottawa area growing season and will save us a mitt load of money buying baby plants from Canadian Tire.  Though, I think we already spent an equivalent mitt load buying fancy seeds from Stokes Seed Co. but who's counting?

The indoor plant starter date of April 1st is fast approaching so Ian got down to work designing and building us a lighted platform on which to grow our seeds into baby plants.  He used a sofa table from the basement as the base and then built a functional and attractive wooden frame from which to hang the fluorescent light above the growing table.  The light can be raised as the plants grow so it will always hover just above them.

I am super impressed with Ian's handyman skills and am thrilled with how this plant nursery turned out - all built from scraps of wood that we already had lying around.  We have placed the nursery in the living room behind the chesterfield but in front of our large south-western facing windows so the plants will get some natural light and heat as well as the artificial light.  T-minus 27 days until planting day!

Light raised for bigger plants.

Light lowered for little plants.