That's a pretty clever idea, esp for tropicals that need warmer temps. I am just going to start my tomatoes and peppers in my COLD house, so that should be just perfect!

Thanks!

Sue

I have! Earlier someone on the Vegetable forum suggested I try it and posted the same link!

I have a white 5-gallon bucket with a 3-inch hole cut in the bottom for planting stuff out in the garden (to alleviate the PWT). I just turned it upside down, put a CFL down through the hole, taped it in place securely, and set the bucket and seeds on a heating pad. Everything germinates very quickly in that setup.

I am looking at saving some talc buckets from when we plant our commercial corn. We go through many buckets. The buckets are square 5 gallon buckets and would work a lot better.