propagating numerous plants in a 200 sqfoot tiny home 🤔

I have a tiny tiny house, 200 sq meters in its entirety. All other buildings on the farm are unheated. The farm is pretty big compared to the house, 10 acres.

The vegetable and kitchen garden are almost an acre. Although I can do a lot of direct seeding, some sensitive souls need propagation. So I will have to find space for them without tripping over them all the time.

Seedlings occupy my side table in front of the window. Others reside on a stool at the foot of my bed. But it took a while to find a place for sprouting potatoes. There are lots of them, at least taking into account the size of the house. So I culled some clothing to make space for them in the foyer! On sunny days I carry them outside.

I am telling about my journey in a really modest dwelling with no electricity or plumbing. Maybe it is not that interesting to the majority of you folks. But I really want to show, how you can be perfectly content with this little ❤️. Wishing it will inspire somebody.

I would get some shelf brackets and boards to make places for plants in those windows. I see at least 4 windows.

These shelves might be high to accommodate walking and sitting.

Anne Miller wrote:I would get some shelf brackets and boards to make places for plants in those windows. I see at least 4 windows.

Kaarina made insulated window coverings that she's still likely needing to install each night, so brackets and boards would likely make that more awkward?

However, I wonder if at some point, a lean-to green house on the south side of the house with a cover that could roll down at night and lift up during the day would get enough heat from inside to be worth investing in? I'd likely insulate under it, and any areas that wouldn't get enough light to be worth it.

Jay, you are right, surprised that you should remember my window covers ❤️.

We still have cold nights - down to zero F, although the days can be  in the fourties if the sun is shining. No greenhouse protecta from that kind of nights.

So we have to share the house, me and the seedlings... I am doing fine actually. All seedlings have found a place, and the potatoes on my ex underware shelf are quite endearing.

I was actually posting this to show that even such tight quarters can easily accommodate some 600 seedlings and 500 sprouting potatoes! I am rather surprised myself - how easily I found space for them without compromising anything really.

I remember your window covers alright because I covet them! The problem is that in my ecosystem, mold is a major problem and the house is second hand. Our land is lovely, but the people who thought that a double patio door in the bedroom on the north side of the house needed to study the physics of heat movement! I would love to cover the window with more than just drapes, but it is too large, so would need at least two panels, but even then the panels would be awkwardly big.

I do have a south window for starting a limited number of seedlings. However, our winters are very cloudy, and we don't have snow to reflect what light there is.  It's on my list for the next few days to get some seeds germinating and I have already moved a few plants out on the porch to start hardening off.

Hopefully all your seedlings will do well!