Improving the quality of my sleep

After reading too many Amazon reviews about cheap LED grow lights catching fire, I decided to fuse the AC input to my lights. I hacked a power cord and put a fuse holder in series with the line (hot) wire. The fuse holder is intended for low voltage automotive wiring, so I covered it with shrink tubing to make it safe to touch.

My Viparspectra 300W lights nominally draw 1.14A. I daisy chained 2 together, so that's 2.28A. I figured a 5A fuse should be about right. Here's the final setup:

Winter Tomatoes - Part 3

I have been pleasantly surprised with not only the quantity, but quality of the tomatoes I have received over the past month.  The Sub-Arctic plenty tomatoes put on a lot of fruit as determinates do, but now that most of that fruit has ripened it is blossoming and fruiting again.  All but 2 of the tomatoes have been very good and we have been enjoying them on salads and sandwiches.  This type of plant usually produces 4-6 oz fruit, but I did get a nice ~10 oz tomato from it.  The cherry tomatoes keep coming and the taste has gotten much better over time.

The new tomatoes/peppers are off to a great start and I am looking forward to getting them into the ground in about a month.

Boxcar Willie moved into a 5 gallon bucket for the time being.  I topped it and grew out 5 suckers.  I buried them when transplanting to hopefully get 5 growing stems.  I will bury this deep when I plant it into the garden bed.

Beefsteak Tomatoes.  Most were getting too large, so I topped them as well.  Will keep 2-5 growing stems on them

Some of my pepper starts in their new pots.  The bottom middle is an experiment growing 2 plants together (recommended by the Farmers Almanac)