Try an almost free experiment. Make a 3 sided reflective screen from card and tinfoil to place behind your seedlings. This will make the most of available daylight and help stop seedlings stretching towards the light.
I've used grow lights for a few years now. I have limited space so it allows me to start sowing earlier in the year and I can utilise the dining room table as well as the conservatory window ledges. I think they work really well.
Try an almost free experiment. Make a 3 sided reflective screen from card and tinfoil to place behind your seedlings. This will make the most of available daylight and help stop seedlings stretching towards the light.
I have a reflector like that for my seedlings, and it does help, but my only suitable windowsill is east-facing so plenty of sun from dawn until lunchtime, unless it's cloudy so this year I am supplementing with a growlight in the afternoon/evening when the sun has moved off. It's not very powerful but it does seem to be helping. Since I got it my baby tomatoes aren't turning towards the window.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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