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I love snow. Especially when my snowblower is working well. I have trouble dealing with heat I am not able to do a lot of work when it’s hot and humid. I’ve been enjoying the cooler temperatures we’ve had for the past few weeks, overnight averages low 40’s and daytime highs in mid to low 60’s. We might get our first frost near the end of next week. That’s pretty late for us but no complaints. I turned the pellet stove on a week ago Monday and just now carried my third bag of pellets. I spent a couple of hours on the new chicken coop this morning. I put moisture barrier over the floor frame then covered with OSB then a sheet of linoleum. Also nearly finished the frame for the back wall. I’m hoping to get that wall ready to stand up and screw it down on Thursday morning when DD comes over to help. Fingers crossed.
 
akroberts1085 said:
My ideal temperature would be 70 degrees no hotter and no colder.
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I was stationed in Santa Barbara, CA for 2 years. It had that great climate right around 70-72 degrees F every day, year round. Probably why everything was so expensive there, like housing. Lot of people like that climate.

I missed the snow. But I was born and raised in Minnesota so maybe that was to be expected. Still, I like the change of the seasons and always missed that when I was living in CA or when I was stationed in Guam, tropical all year round, just parts of the year that got lots of rain.

I wonder how it would be to garden 12 months out of the year? I get about 4 months of gardening outside. However, this year I started plants inside the house 2 months early. So, I guess I now garden 6 months out of the year.
 
gtaus said:
I was stationed in Santa Barbara, CA for 2 years. It had that great climate right around 70-72 degrees F every day, year round. Probably why everything was so expensive there, like housing. Lot of people like that climate.

I missed the snow. But I was born and raised in Minnesota so maybe that was to be expected. Still, I like the change of the seasons and always missed that when I was living in CA or when I was stationed in Guam, tropical all year round, just parts of the year that got lots of rain.

I wonder how it would be to garden 12 months out of the year? I get about 4 months of gardening outside. However, this year I started plants inside the house 2 months early. So, I guess I now garden 6 months out of the year.
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I've never really been too deep into gardening but with the prices of food I now have 3 greenhouses for year round gardening. I have not ever put in a Fall garden but this is the year that has changed my gardening. Our weather is going to be in the 90's tomorrow but it's not too awful. Maybe it will help my tomatoes and peppers ripen a bit faster.
 
Speaking of not gardening in the winter months...

Does anyone have suggestions of green foods I could grow in my basement, under LED lights, in a temperature of about 63F? I would probably have to go with some kind of hydroponic system. But I'm not sure.

I tried growing Swiss Chard in pots of garden soil in my house over a winter, but they all got infested with aphids around March and I had to toss everything out. I was told later that you cannot use regular garden soil because it might contain eggs and such. No doubt, the eggs hatched and that was no fun.

This spring, I bought about eight 4-foot-long LED shop lights to use for plant starting. I could use them in the winter to grow food as well. I could build some plant stands, shelves, or benches out of wood.
 
gtaus said:
I just cleaned out a shed. One of the plastic storage bins had a mouse nest in it, with dead mice all squished out and slimy in the bottom of the bin. Boy, did that smell! I washed the storage bin out with soap and water and let it air out overnight. But it still smells terrible. I was going to store it back in the shed, but ended up taking it outside, turning it upside down, and will let it sit there over the winter. The plastic bin itself is clean, but the smell did not go away with the washing.

If anyone knows if it is possible to de-odorize a plastic bin, please let me know. Thanks
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Why don't you just convert it into a planter of some kind?
 
gtaus said:
Speaking of not gardening in the winter months...

Does anyone have suggestions of green foods I could grow in my basement, under LED lights, in a temperature of about 63F? I would probably have to go with some kind of hydroponic system. But I'm not sure.

I tried growing Swiss Chard in pots of garden soil in my house over a winter, but they all got infested with aphids around March and I had to toss everything out. I was told later that you cannot use regular garden soil because it might contain eggs and such. No doubt, the eggs hatched and that was no fun.

This spring, I bought about eight 4-foot-long LED shop lights to use for plant starting. I could use them in the winter to grow food as well. I could build some plant stands, shelves, or benches out of wood.
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If you can heat the basement just a little bit you might be able to grow a bunch of stuff. Broccoli lettuce cabbage celery carrots spinach and maybe even more. It's worth a try.
 
gtaus said:
Speaking of not gardening in the winter months...

Does anyone have suggestions of green foods I could grow in my basement, under LED lights, in a temperature of about 63F? I would probably have to go with some kind of hydroponic system. But I'm not sure.

I tried growing Swiss Chard in pots of garden soil in my house over a winter, but they all got infested with aphids around March and I had to toss everything out. I was told later that you cannot use regular garden soil because it might contain eggs and such. No doubt, the eggs hatched and that was no fun.

This spring, I bought about eight 4-foot-long LED shop lights to use for plant starting. I could use them in the winter to grow food as well. I could build some plant stands, shelves, or benches out of wood.
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My allergy shot buddy, every Monday, grows lettuce with a hydroponic system in her basement all year. She loves it.
 

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