Wyoming Unite!!!!

[R2elk]

There is still at least 3 weeks to go before I get to start emptying out the greenhouse.

Jalapeno pepper

Cabbage

 

[red horse ranch]

Great Job!

 

[R2elk]

Great Job!

Thank you.

There is white crap coming down this morning that I hesitate to call snow. It is like tiny little ice balls.

 

[CindyinSD]

Thank you.

There is white crap coming down this morning that I hesitate to call snow. It is like tiny little ice balls.

We got that yesterday. It must gave a special name. DH laughed at me and called it sleet, but that's not what I think of as sleet. Since we, unlike northern indigenous peoples (I'm told), seem to have no adequate name for this stuff, maybe we should make something up. Beanbag chair stuffing pellet snow just doesn't have the right ring, though...

 

[CindyinSD]

There is still at least 3 weeks to go before I get to start emptying out the greenhouse.

Jalapeno pepper

Cabbage

 

[R2elk]

We got that yesterday. It must gave a special name. DH laughed at me and called it sleet, but that's not what I think of as sleet. Since we, unlike northern indigenous peoples (I'm told), seem to have no adequate name for this stuff, maybe we should make something up. Beanbag chair stuffing pellet snow just doesn't have the right ring, though...

I looked it up one time. If I am remembering correctly, it is called frizzen snow pellets or graupel. It is definitely not sleet. I grew up where sleet was common. I don't think that I have ever seen sleet here.

Types of Precipitation

Graupel

 

[CindyinSD]

I really wish that our house was such that I could add on a greenhouse like that. Our south wall just isn't amenable at all. I have a few little plants under lights, longing for the sun. Yours are just gorgeous! I'm seriously considering abutting one to an out-building near the free-standing greenhouse--something small and double-walled for getting things started. It would be easy(ish) and quick and not too expensive, I think.

The chickens are supposed to go out several days ago. I have their tractor all set up for them to get accustomed to, but after having spent the winter in the greenhouse I just can't bring myself to put them out into this miserable cold and wind. Even the turkeys are just standing around looking miserable. I am so ready for #&$@! winter to just go away.

 

[R2elk]

I really wish that our house was such that I could add on a greenhouse like that. Our south wall just isn't amenable at all. I have a few little plants under lights, longing for the sun. Yours are just gorgeous! I'm seriously considering abutting one to an out-building near the free-standing greenhouse--something small and double-walled for getting things started. It would be easy(ish) and quick and not too expensive, I think.

The chickens are supposed to go out several days ago. I have their tractor all set up for them to get accustomed to, but after having spent the winter in the greenhouse I just can't bring myself to put them out into this miserable cold and wind. Even the turkeys are just standing around looking miserable. I am so ready for #&$@! winter to just go away.

I very strongly recommend a Walpini over a normal greenhouse. If I make another it will be a combination of a Walpini along with the heating cooling system that is based on buried (below the frost line) circulation pipes with inline blowers operated by a thermostat.

Such a circulation system provides warm air during the winter and cool air during the summer to maintain good temperatures in the greenhouse. By having the base of the greenhouse 6' deep, it never gets down to freezing temperatures.

 

[CindyinSD]

I don't know whether I could dig a hole (or many) like that. When we had excavation done for my mom's house (where we're living now), we ended up with a half-buried basement because we weren't up for blasting. I'd love to do that, but I'm afraid it's just too much project for me. My brother tried it on his place. Despite all the heavy equipment they rented, they're not getting a buried greenhouse either. He's in a different geological area (about 50 miles from here) but rocks are rocks I guess.

I'm putting a lot of thermal mass into my hoop house in three big & tall raised beds, plus a planned inside water tank, so hopefully that'll extend the season a bit more.

 

[R2elk]

I don't know whether I could dig a hole (or many) like that. When we had excavation done for my mom's house (where we're living now), we ended up with a half-buried basement because we weren't up for blasting. I'd love to do that, but I'm afraid it's just too much project for me. My brother tried it on his place. Despite all the heavy equipment they rented, they're not getting a buried greenhouse either. He's in a different geological area (about 50 miles from here) but rocks are rocks I guess.

I'm putting a lot of thermal mass into my hoop house in three big & tall raised beds, plus a planned inside water tank, so hopefully that'll extend the season a bit more.

The beauty of living on a sand dune. I could easily dig the hole for the greenhouse in one day with my backhoe. Building the retaining walls would be another situation. Of course before building the retaining walls, I would definitely ditch in a water line for a frost free hydrant.

It would go quicker digging the ditches for the ventilation system if I had a helper to lay the pipe as the ditch progressed in order to avoid having to re-dig collapsed ditches.