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[minihorse927]

Don't think I have either, but am learning how to speak Alaskan, lol...

Stay home, get rest... feel better...

stay home. I wish. Nope. Just had to unload a salt truck in the rain. :/

 

[vehve]

So when you say "Back to the saltmines..." you can actually pretty much mean it?

 

[minihorse927]

So when you say "Back to the saltmines..." you can actually pretty much mean it? 

yep! Running a fever, going between sweating and cold and freezing to death and the hot again. Getting rained on while having to unload and stock 7 skids of salt. Blech!

 

[chickisoup]

here's the full link;

www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?hl=en&mid=zv94AJqgUct4.kB0Jt6F7NlIM

Edited by chickisoup - Today at 8:48 am

 

[hennible]

Haha, yeah.

So, to direct the discussion towards gardening again, since I can't plant anything outside yet, I keep thinking of different ways to plant whatever I'm growing inside now. Has anyone tried planting tomatoes in a upside down hanging planter? I've been thinking of also trying that this year, possibly with some kind of self watering container built in. Also, has anyone made capillary mats out of some household items? How does fleece fabric work?

The big thing with upside down plants is "air pruning" of the roots. My sister had a section of her greenhouse set up to growing this way. They framed a section to hold five gallon buckets. Works great... Back to air pruning, the air exposer on the end the plants are hanging out of must be at a minimum, as little as you can manage. She cut the lids to the buckets so a small transplant went into a centred hole, gave the seedling time to establish and then put them in the frame... I totally forgot about this growing method... Wonder if I can squeeze it into my greenhouse.... I think I've got a spot....
No idea what a capillary mat is.,,,

 

[hennible]

Now Felix help me design a passive thermal collection system ( and distribution system ) for my greenhouse.

 

[vehve]

How passive? Black water containers that store heat, and then using a solar powered pump to rotate the water in tubing under the beds might work. Or then you could do it like in that video you posted. Both methods would need thermostats too. If you want to invest a bit more, a thermal pump might work... Basically if you go deep enough, you'll have almost 50F constantly. Rotating water through a deeper heat well and into the ground underneath the beds would warm the soil a bit in colder periods. But systems like that would be around 10K to install, at least. Unless you figure out a way to build it yourself. Stealing heat from a compost could work too, if you have a big enough flock of chickens to produce poop all through the winter.

 

[BriardChickens]

Good morning all! Bunnies are doing great @vehve .

@Amberjem , Hoping today is a better day for you. I understand pain, but probably not to the extent you have it. My back gives me fits at least once a month that I absolutely cannot walk at all. I also need to have surgery on my rotator cuff but I have put it off for years. I can no longer lift that arm. It's just kinda hanging there. Can't lift anything with it & hurts constantly. I currently have no medical insurance so it costs $120+ per visit to chiropractor or doctor and neither of those will help my arm. I take ibuprofen because it's an anti inflammatory. I have a nice rice heat pad like vehve mentioned. And I use some sort of analgesic rub (bengay, or whatever I have on hand). But you can't use the heat pad with the rub of course.

It is absolutely pouring down rain outside

UGH! I've got to get out there and do some feeding before I get ready for work. You all have a great day

that sounds painful. Hope you can get this figured out.

Sorry about the rain, you can send it my way. As of yesterday we have a fire ban and our snow isn't even all melted in the shaded spots. The winds and dry grasses aren't helping.

 

[hennible]

I have to go simple for now, I have a couple 50 gallon drums I could paint black for this season... Placement might be tricky... If I could, the obvious choice is geothermal... Just dreaming for a second...
Ok if I had a closed pipe system filled with water, half buried under the beds half in the "ceiling" where its hot would convection circular the water?? :/ I think so...
One day I'm building the one in that video...

 

[hennible]

Oh what's a solar pump??