Learning, growing, and sharing on our path to self sufficiency! Join us as we Propagate our food forest and recycle local materials for projects along the way! We are farming our two properties for food security and teaching our children self sufficiency. Living in zone 4b/5a we see harsh cold winters making this lifestyle more challenging!
Hi :-) could you please provide some more detailed information on the Geothermal setup? How are the pipes laid out excacly? Are they coated? Do you have one or more layers of pipe? What did you put on top of the pipes? Just the earth you digged out before or sand or stone? I appreciate your sharing and I want to build a geothermal system for my new tunnel which is 24 Meters long. Thank you very much and cheers from Germany!
Our northern most wall has rigid foam insulation on it already, the double layer acts as an all around layer of insulation or buffer layer from inside to outside. The next greenhouse we build will be over insulated for winter. I’ve thought about making a black northern wall but in the summer it would be too much heat absorption.
We sourced 60f-80f all winter with water and air, I encourage you to look through the Jean pain compost heating playlist if you find it interesting. I’ve tried to share temps, growth, and overall operation/set. Thanks for checking this out!
I'm not using a battery so the controller doesn't work. I was told I could wire it directly to the fan. It charges my iPhone but not the fan. Any tips?
You can get away with directly wiring a panel but it’s not safe for the mechanism as you could fry it. Try the fan separately. Let me know if that works
Thank you, my son and I are going to make some more bricks and readjust the first build and paste in some mud/clay around the outside. It’s a work in progress
@@Earthdwellershomestead I have 40 chickens and 5 rabbits that love it and I have copious amounts of fall leaves that I mix comfrey leaves and chicken/rabbit manure into for next year.
Bees love the comfrey flowers purple is their favorite color flower. The folk name is 'bone knit' and Dr. Jennifer Daniels recommends using it when you break your arm vs. going to the doctor. Thank you for the video. I didn't know there was a non-spreading type of comfrey.
Must have been comfrey #4 that seeds. We have blocking comfrey, it doesn’t have true seeds at least not that we’ve witnessed in 8 years. It can be invasive if we don’t plant the correct one for the job
I add the water from my turtle tanks to my compost or as a drench for my veg or fruit trees, not root crops though. Then alternate beds during the off season months.
@@Earthdwellershomestead we have 2 red eared sliders and a painted. High nitrogen water so I stop water the plants when they start fruiting. Also 2 guinea pigs so their bedding and waste go into the pile and cover the beds in the off seasons too.
@@Earthdwellershomestead 3rd year gardening and with the help from my research, your videos and some other homesteaders/gardeners it's produced well for us.
It’s a process to separate finer materials out but it’s well worth it! Thanks for checking this one out, and he want another bigger pond with more fish already lol
We don’t have many problems with potted plants, we’ve had aphids in the greenhouse over the winter in which case we released ladybugs 🐞 inside and they pretty much wiped out the aphids.
@@Earthdwellershomestead where do you get the ladybug if i may know? I don't know how to get rid spider mites without insecticide x.x I'm trying to avoid any chemical use.
@marcopolo9324 we ordered 1000 online for around 5-6$ this winter. I still see them in the greenhouse this spring and summer. I would have to refind the website and share it
I have one of those and his Crow kills me every single time. My silkie bantam rooster will compete with him and they will go back and forth, I live for it
Wonderful explanation of WHY aloe Vera works Will be doing a cutting from my Turkish fig and dip into rooting hormone then into a cut aloe Vera section and planted - covered -- I think by golly this time we will have success
We’ve had it clogged with water before from a tank of water we emptied. We used pumps and fabric to dry it out. If it had soil inside you could use water to remove it, and if it isn’t compacted you could use and air hose to blow it out.
I also wondering if the water geothermal could be implemented into RAS system As a form of preventing stress in fish due to El Nino, as a water temperature stabilizer.
Never ever boring or tedious. I apreciate your clear description between the different methods of heating a hothouse. I have a head start on my project now, all thanks to you.
Partially, they do self pollinate, we have a Shinko and an “azure” they both produce a good amount as young trees. Saving the seeds to plant more out. Great question
Depends on what you’re growing, we have 30% on our larger greenhouse for growing tomatoes, peppers, and keeping market plants, 35-40% is max for fruiting veggies. 70% is for propagating and starting seeds for the most part
@@Earthdwellershomestead yes. I guess I should have said that for the benefit of others. I've got a couple hundred cannabis plants. And I'm in Florida. The plants grow faster in direct sun, but the flower produces nearly doubled the cannabinoids under 20% My problem is I need to lower the temperature by 10-20 degrees. Without air conditioning
@zachz1018 nice lol, if your trying to clone or start seed, giving yourself a shady corner is the best bet. That’s and interesting find, we’ve not done any inside before.
Doubting is one thing, seeing for yourself is another lol. You saw the top layer, there’s roughly 9 tons that had nitrogen dumped on it. Feel free to watch the playlist labeled Jean pain compost heating
Right, I should’ve stated this was the top layer of our compost heater. The core is black gold while the outer 6”shell is relatively dry and unbroken down thanks for checking this out!
The outer layer is yes, this was our compost heater comprised of woodchips, the outer 6” is still relatively unbroken down. The inside is pure black gold
It’s not necessary no, we do this for soil and top dressings, and larger pieces get recomposed into rings. This was the top crust of out compost heater, mostly unbroken down woodchips but a few scoops got in there where we have more finely broken down materials. We just do this as we can use everything in its own way or send it back to be broken down further. Great question!
Doesn’t look like compost! Looks like cedar mulch! I would recommend a vibrating table to place the material on, anf the larger pieces will vibrate off the table, while the smaller pieces pass through the screen. Have a good day.😊
This was from the outer shell, we’ve got tons and tons of fresh compost under the top 6”. Great top dressings for the food forest. The finer stuff goes into pots, a vibrating table would cost money which we spent very little of the build this.
(Liked) You said ask.. How did you end up with a Mum in July with all those little root sprouts? Did the plant get exposed to cold? Where is the big parent plant? I want to make a mum put out babes like that.. 😊
This was from a perennial variety that survived the greenhouse over winter, in dormancy but we took lots of cutting from our mum, it works well with them as they fleshy skin like tomatoes or basil that have undifferentiated cells in the skin, great question!
