Guest guest Posted February 24, 2000 Report Share Posted February 24, 2000 Dear Carol Thanx for the extensive effort... <<At twenty eight I had a job five kids, husband and a garden you blossom where you are planted. Well, you can't change the past, but that is defenitely not yet my future. Need to do some more growing up before I would choke in it. <<Yes, opening the doors during the day helps. But the pressurized gas is sorta like an extra side dressing of manure tea. It will make up for extremely short days and if the green house gets full sun all the time you can really get a great crop it encourages your plants to grow very quickly and become very healthy. Your crops will be growing under extreme circumstances, so you give them all the love and advantage they can get. In extreme cold it is usually also very dry. So you keep the floor damp to add humidity. CO2 is like another kind of fertilizer it really works! That seems a good idea, if you consider the amount of sunshine or just plain daylight we get in the summer (upto 24 hours a day). It would really boost them with some extra nutrients and co2. But still you have to keep a balance, right ? I can imagine they would appriciate more co2 in the summer, but not so much in the winter (when they hardly get sunlight). They won't get overloaded ? <<The pile of manure can be outside the green house with a pipe coiled up inside it and then run into the green house. So, your system is based on hot air then... You'd need a vent or just let it flow from the pipe into your greenhouse at one point ? From the floor or accross the ceiling ? <<If you run water through the pipe you will have a manure heater But you get less heat in your greenhouse then you would with hot air, right? <<or you could use a solar heater same thing only you use an insulated black box with pipe coiled inside and a glass cover over the top the water will be heated and can be used for showers and or to heat the green house. But that won't work in winter when we need the heating most in the greenhouse... <<If you need to feed ten people then you must have a green house. Green houses properly done can produce three times the food you could on a regular space with half the work. You also have less bugs and disease..... You're sure ? I had a terrible time this summer in the green house. A lot of damage... <<but because of the climate you will need to place spacers and then add a second sheet of plastic film to create an air space. That will keep your inexpensive green house much warmer than a single sheet of plastic. Good. <<You can pry the lid up with a stick if it gets too hot and cover it with cardboard or Styrofoam when it starts to get too cold. What about humidity in cold frames ? It shouldn't be too high, right ? At least if you look at the limited and crowded space and it being so low to the ground (less aeration) I can imagine problems with mould. I even have problems in my big greenhouse with crowdy plants developping mold. <<You can get lots more potatoes by planting three sets (plants) in a small circle and placing a car tire around the three little plants as they get tall yes, i have been able to follow up these texts on the conference. Thanx for spending time again... <<The new leaves will quickly turn into roots when you cover them with straw, sense you only get potatoes from the rootlets you are giving yourself six more sets of roots than you ever would have had before. But a consideration: you don't add sand in the tires ? Then how do the plants root in the tires ? just from the little straw you add ? <<The plastic bag I use is a dry-cleaning bag on a coat hanger,( I have a friend who gets all her stuff dry-cleaned) I just pull the bag down to about the floor. About the floor, so you leave space for aeration... <<Yes, it is a special cloth like stuff, it lasts about five years. Lets sun light in keeps bugs out and acts like a wind break and will hold in some heat. It will let rain in also. You can leave the fabric on all the time also. Rabbits don't seem to bother the plants so much also. I haven't seen it around here yet and i'm sure it is not the 'mesh' we used on the apple trees at Balabhadras either I guess ( at least Gosh was charging us more :-) We'll see what we can get a hold of when i'm there... <<We ran it (exhaust) Straight into the green house no pipes. Woo, I wouldn't want to be in your greenhouse... All this is supposed to be good for the plants ? At least we're advised here not to eat things that are close to the roads or factories. <<it got down to eighty below zero F at point barrow quite often, cold enough that if you spit it froze before it hit the ground. I threw out a cup of boiling water and it froze on the way down but it was 100 degrees below zero F. The coldest day we ever had. I'm sure it won't get that bad in Iceland... <<All day, sixteen hours. The lamps were grow lamps they have all spectrum oflight in them regular tube lights white light will not give the plants all the correct kind of light it must be a GROW LIGHT. If you are in the dark too long it makes you depressed and tired but is you have a grow light it won't effect you very much, human bodies need sunlight also but a grow light may be the next best thing. Good you mentioned, cause I was too stupid to think of that. Maybe it will also be good to have one in my room for winter. I'm annualy suffering from a 'winter down'. I'm always so happy when the spring vibes arrive... immediately feel energy flowing again. <<Actually if you just paint wood panels a bright white and place on the North side of the green house it alone will reflect a lot of light. Good. << also if you paint a light blue strip about half a meter wide (18") every five feet on the South side of the green house that helps the plant growth also. Something to do with blue spectrum of light. It does work I can tell you that. Why, I do not know! That i never heard of... thanx <<Yes, I grew the plants vertically The plants used the Styrofoam beads to hold on the roots got the compost tea I fed them by me pouring the tea mixture into the top of the pipe and caught it in a bucket in the bottom. You do that how many times a day/week ? <<Now I use 4 liter plastic milk bottles and fill it up with manure tea, I polk a small hole in one corner and hang over the container so it slowly drips into the pipe. Drip irrigation at it's simplest. Yes, that is lazy intelligence, but it does save time so you concentrate on other usefull activities. You can get so much more done... not unlike me whose always wasting so much time due to lack of creativity... good to have someone like you around. << Smart man that is a good Idea. Hum... ideas enough, but they hardly ever manifest... <<"Bunny berries" can be placed directly on your crops. (straight from the rabbit to the tomatoes). You can dry them and crush to have a powder ? Or is that too hard to do ? Talking of rabbits: you have experience with them. Anything you want to share or important things to mention ? I'll also have to take care of them... <<See you are already thinking. Buh... always figuring out how to make money I am... could do more usefull things with my thinking... dirk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2000 Report Share Posted February 27, 2000 <<We ran it (exhaust) Straight into the green house no pipes. >Woo, I wouldn't want to be in your greenhouse... All this is supposed to be >good for the plants ? At least we're advised here not to eat things that >are close to the roads or factories. If you haven't answered this one yet I am interested to know the answer too. I kept my trailer in a leanto shed for five months, 300 meters from a large main road. It got covered in grime and was very difficult to clean off. I had to use an idustrial cleaner. Now I keep it in the country and in the same five month period, no problem. So would plants growing near permanent Co2 emmisions not get too blackened? and smothered from breathing properly as well as getting an extra Co2 input? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2000 Report Share Posted February 28, 2000 > <<We ran it (exhaust) Straight into the green house no pipes. > > >Woo, I wouldn't want to be in your greenhouse... All this is supposed to > >be good for the plants ? At least we're advised here not to eat things > >that are close to the roads or factories. > > If you haven't answered this one yet I am interested to know the answer > too. > > I kept my trailer in a leanto shed for five months, 300 meters from a > large main road. It got covered in grime and was very difficult to clean > off. I had to use an idustrial cleaner. Now I keep it in the country and > in the same five month period, no problem. > > So would plants growing near permanent Co2 emmisions not get too > blackened? and smothered from breathing properly as well as getting an > extra Co2 input? Yeah, and what about lead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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