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To: Red_Devil 232

We’ve only had a handfull of nights when we stayed into the 60s. We’ll have to return to the traditional greens and root crops here in Michigan.

I’ve got a guy coming over this afternoon to see what he needs to do the framing for a new greenhouse to replace my old porch. I may even put a small woodstove out there to keep the chill off at night so I can get started in February or March.


10 posted on 07/17/2009 4:29:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: cripplecreek
Am putting a lean-to greenhouse on the side of the corn-crib/garage....Got it from RION. It snaps together like Legoes and was half the price of some of the others. Made in Israel....

Was working on the foundation this Spring and then got busy with other things....Since I won't use it till fall have put it on the shelf until late August early Sept.

23 posted on 07/17/2009 5:15:07 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: cripplecreek

I used to have a small greenhouse here and I heated my house with wood. Every night just before turning in I would fill a coal scuttle with hot coals from the wood stove and set it in the greenhouse. I had an electric heater for backup but I don’t think it ever came on, the bucket of coals would heat the eight by ten foot greenhouse enough without any other heat. The coals would still be hot the next morning, a layer of ash formed over the top but down in the center would be red coals still.


104 posted on 07/17/2009 10:07:33 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
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