Here's how to get early vegetables from your vegetable garden using recycled water jugs from award winning garden author Doug Green - from www.douggreensgarden.com Cut the bottom off a recycled water jug - duct tape the top so that you can open it during the day and close it at night to protect your tender vegetable seedlings. The extra heat and humidity under the plastic acts as a mini-greenhouse to grow much faster seedlings. This system can be used with all kinds of vegetable seeds and transplants (including getting early tomatoes) to give an extra shot of heat and help them along. The only thing a gardener has to be aware of is not letting the cloche stay on too long into the gardening season and summer - because if it gets to hot under the cloche during the day, it can stunt flowers (so plan on removing it during the day and putting it back on at night) This technique is particularly good for growing green peppers
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