Salads topped with shredded carrots from last summers' garden. 
It has been fun harvesting lettuce, kale, broccoli & collard leaves from the green house since November. With a mulch base under the growing beds and a garden hose circulating water into the basement to a copper coil heat exchanger mounted over the furnace and then back into two water filled, black 50 gallon drums; the green house has been more productive than last year.
It has been fun harvesting lettuce, kale, broccoli & collard leaves from the green house since November. With a mulch base under the growing beds and a garden hose circulating water into the basement to a copper coil heat exchanger mounted over the furnace and then back into two water filled, black 50 gallon drums; the green house has been more productive than last year.
Neat setup. So that water circulation system is about reusing water not absorbed by the plants?
ReplyDeleteYes, I am circulating water from the storage barrels up and over the wood burning furnace to heat it. The water then ciruclates within a 50' hose the folds back and forth in the bed under the plants. So now the root bed stands consistently at 60F, where as before it was consistently in the lower 40's.Result - better plant growth.
ReplyDeleteOh, interesting!
ReplyDeleteBefore reading the explanation, I knew the water would be heated in a "green" way! Now, I'm hungry!
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