Prepping to #GrowYourOwn #VictoryGarden over winter utilizing the #wallOwater principle because physics is our friend. Experienced gardeners that get seasonal seed catalogs are familiar with the Wall O Water tomato enclosures sold by them for the purpose of frost-proofing young tomato plants in early spring. #solarpunk Filling up used soda bottles (2 liter) with water and arranging those into a coldframe formation can be effective for extending the growing season at both ends of it. When the coldframe walls are 2 bottles thick, you can grow cold season crops well past frost and past first freeze.
Adding strings of Christmas lights under the clear plastic tent/covering will give you all-winter produce. But I've taken that a step further still, utilizing even more physics aspects of wate
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Prepping to #GrowYourOwn #VictoryGarden over winter utilizing the #wallOwater principle because physics is our friend. Experienced gardeners that get seasonal seed catalogs are familiar with the Wall O Water tomato enclosures sold by them for the purpose of frost-proofing young tomato plants in early spring. #solarpunk Filling up used soda bottles (2 liter) with water and arranging those into a coldframe formation can be effective for extending the growing season at both ends of it. When the coldframe walls are 2 bottles thick, you can grow cold season crops well past frost and past first freeze.
Adding strings of Christmas lights under the clear plastic tent/covering will give you all-winter produce. But I've taken that a step further still, utilizing even more physics aspects of water' heat exchange properties.Pure H2O freezes at 32F, 0C. Tap water isn't pure H2O and the dissolved material in it results in its freezing at a temp below 32F, and that's why "antifreeze" is a mix of glycol and water. Conversely, when heated, it also retains more heat because the boiling point has risen well beyond 212F....and that's when it's exposed to open air. Inside a sealed container where internal pressure can build, that raises the boiling point still further upward.
...and that's why you're not seeing many water-filled 2 liter pop bottles in the picture of my digs I attached. You see, last year I didn't have enough pop bottles to make a patch of that size but I did buy lots of jugs of vinegar that were on sale for pickling season, and in a pinch used those to make up the difference--only to discover that they're a better antifreeze than tap water by a long shot. So what you see here are jugs of pickling vinegar, a gallon apiece, bought on sale just for this coldframe purpose. It's got irrigation lines criss-crossing the bed, a couple of tomato cages in the middle to prop up a clear plastic covering, and a few strings of Christmas lights mounted on PVC conduit to run down the middle. By golly, I'm gonna grow my own all winter long. I'm in Ag Zone 7.
2/ A word about the holed bricks on the outer perimeter: the persistent problem with making a wall of cylindrical objects is the weak barrier where one object touches another; the bricks turn those areas into insulative air pockets and the holes in the bricks serve as the same. A neighbor discarded those and I snapped 'em right up, but solid bricks can serve as a similar stopgap measure. The plastic covering goes over the bricks and it takes a row of bricks outside of that to hold the plastic down along the edges. #solarpunk
I'm seeing running posts. I'm not going to doxx myself with maps, but I was happy to get a few miles or this morning at 7am. Especially as it was a cool down from the 30 miler yesterday.
Problem is, the heat here sucks. 7am temp was around 29 °C with dewpoint of 25 °C and humidity hitting 79 %
Added current temperature outside of 41°c and feeling like the 50s. Because.
And yes, this me still in recovery. The body can. The brain and emotions.....
Whistleblower Charles Borges said he was stepping down as chief data officer for the Social Security Administration because of the agency's "actions against me."
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Dressed to impress 🎩✨: Male Bulwer’s pheasant (Lophura bulweri) steps out with snow-white tail plumes and a vivid blue face, a dazzling rarity of Borneo’s forests 🐦🌿. Photo: Daniel Yong.
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