Category: Gardening
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Window box heater
Last year I started fiddling with passive heating and whipped up one of these window box heaters. I found several flaws with my design and have since learned how to improve the efficiency greatly. For this test, I just leaned it on the sill of the kitchen window (the most northerly facing window) in the…
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Accidental climate
Finishing the greenhouse and moving it into place has created an unexpected bonus Where the light and heat bouncing off the rainwater tank was previously being lost over the pond, now the greenhouse traps it and keeps it in the area between the two. The result is a pleasant microclimate that is a couple of…
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Greenhouse life part 1
Today, we managed to get the greenhouse wrapped. We’re pretty proud of our cable tie and duct tape efforts! The greenhouse is an old shade house frame that we were given, plus two (and in some places, three) layers of plastic sheeting with an air gap between most of it. It measures 3.6m x 1.8m…
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Just a little short!
Things don’t always go to plan! There I was, putting up the plastic for the new greenhouse that will hold the aquaponics systems and I discovered that I measured about 2m short… Back to the hardware store! Bugger.
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Patreon
Everyone needs a few bucks, and we are no exception. As much as we enjoy giving, swapping and trading, some things need cold, hard cash, especially when dealing with Caeser. Ironically, getting started in sustainability can be expensive. I’ve been thinking for a while about how to make a modest income from our posts and…
