We have 15% humidity today, and most days... Up to 60% in winter but mostly around 30%... Some of summer here it is 7% . I plant on the edge of the tree shadows so they don't get fried. Central Arizona, outside Prescott. At about 4500 ft above sea level. We sometimes have trouble with spittle bugs. Insecticidal soap works on them. 🤔🙄🤷🌵😎👵🐺🖖🌵💖💋
I liked your video, much, I live in a city and harvest rainwater, so I look around for paint buckets (usually mostly) in this season thrown away. If feasible, I clean them of any paint with a steel mesh scrubber and now I have 6 buckets and many pet 5 -6 liter bottles also thrown away. Not to mention a 120 liter barrel, found of course. I only invest in funnels. A suggestion on ways to separate buckets, (though good point on separating them by type/brand), is (I tried one and it worked) I put a round consumed cheese for spreading container, with no lid, upside down, on the bottom in the bucket, and neighbor gave me some as well, so I stacked many, no problem. Another idea is just leave them be heated by the star, for months, forget about them, then when you kind of remember having done it earlier, you'll find them a brittle plastic ready to be thrown away, my case on my countryside plot out of town.
1) you should go online for building heat loss calculators. They calculate how much heat you need to generate based on the size of your greenhouse, the R-value of your glazing, and the expected inside and outside temperatures. It's typically a LOT more heat than you might think. 2) your 'sand battery" is too small to be useful, plus sand is not a good media to store low-grade (under 1000 °C) heat. Water is much, much better. Water can store a lot of heat energy without changing much in temperature. The rule of thumb is 1 cubic foot of water (7.5 gallons) for each square foot of glazing. In direct sun, 1 square foot of glazing will warm 1 cubic foot of water by about 30 degrees fahrenheit. This will help prevent your greenhouse from overheating during the day; and at night, the heat will slowly leave the water, keeping your greenhouse warm (er). It's easy: just use 55 gallon drums to support your raised beds. If you need extra heat at night, direct it toward your water storage. 3) denatured alcohol is usually made by adding wood alcohol (methanol) to ethyl alcohol. This makes it non-drinkable. In fact it's quite toxic -- liver failure, blindness, nerve damage. Worse, unless the combustion is PERFECT, the fumes from burning are still toxic. Your alcohol burner is far from perfect. You would be much, much better off burning kerosene or even vegetable oil. A thermostatically controlled propane heater would be even better.
What exactly do you mean by “clean” the eggs shells? I noticed you picking out what appeared to be some membrane & you mentioned it could cause problems in the future. Are you saying we have to tediously peel & pick out each piece membrane lining?
Thank you so much for this video. You told me step by step what weed sprayer you use, explained everything throughly, clear down to rinsing the equipment and why. Your demonstration was great!
Like the build you did thanx. It's a good, working example. I've read a bunch of the comments and there are some good suggestions for refinements to safety and efficiency. I have one question and one suggestion/question. My question is, what is approximate volume of your greenhouse that you're heating? My suggestion/question is. Would embedding the burner in the sand battery be an efficient way to aid in heating the sand? Or will that help too much with vaporizing the alcohol fuel? Lately I've been doing some experimentation with alcohol rocket stove/heater builds and fuel mixes. I've tried from straight gelled alcohol (hand sanitizer) to straight alcohol (Methyl Hydrate). I find that a mixture of the two 2/3 hand sani to 1/3 methyl hydrate burns best and longest in a similar burner configuration to your build. A tin can double wall rocket stove/heater. The size of a can of Chef Boyardee 1/3-1/2 filled burns for almost four hours if you can manually adjust the air mixture ratio as nessasary. I've been able to heat a tent in around 0C or 32F temperatures to be able to sit with just jeans, T-shirt and a sweatshirt comfortably inside. Incidentally I'm a Horticulturist and Arborist by trade and a friend just recently asked me to build a small off grid type heated greenhouse for him. I will be basing the heater design from the one you have demonstrated here. Thank you very much for your time spent building the heater and making the video. Most importantly! For sharing the knowledge.🤘
A note about heating the water for the salt. My readings show that there is very little difference between unheated and heated water as far as dissolution is concerned.
Thank you for this Video. I could have used it last year around Christmas time, when I found some buckets on the side of the road stuck together, really tight, and since o was going to use them for planting anyway, I drilled holes in the bottom bucket and was able to pull one of them off. The other two i waited for the Sun to do its job and was barely able to pull the last two buckets apart. Did i wait long enough, was the gap hot enough on the inside of the bucket?
Loved your video. Always worked physical work my entire life. Working with plants is very calming for me and I am realizing how much I am enjoying it. Anyway recently tried on woody azalea cutting. I have it in a cup with the lid with couple small air holes. It lasted about three weeks. Now it seems to be failing. I dipped it in moderate difficulty for woody cuttings. I put it in a moisture control potting mix. I see humidity inside the cup, but never watered it, since it’s planting. What is your suggestion???? Thanks so much
Did I miss the part where he actually showed any results???? 🤔 Also I disagree about putting so much of these ingredients into the soil, especially just to avoid pulling up a small plant you don't want. These things are not really a "natural" way to garden; and they can definitely change the composition of the soil. Ever since the curse was placed on Adam, man has been trying to find shortcuts to tending the earth; but this was just the consequence man was called to endure because of sin. Eve's consequence was to have pain during childbirth. Women do all kinds of things to avoid that too. So it's not just men trying to escape the punishment. I still can't see ruining good healthy soil to avoid pulling up some plants. If he were to pull/dig them up by the roots (like he quickly did to one in this video), he might even be able to make some money by selling them to people who actually want them. Just use some empty toilet paper rolls with some soil to transplant the seedlings and you have an extremely inexpensive or even free resource for producing some income.
Good morning. Thank you for your videos. I’m new to gardening and I appreciate your instructions, they are extremely helpful. I am having difficulty with making the yeast fertilizer. I tried it twice and I haven’t been able to get a full fermentation. It starts fairly well and the stops within an hour. It turns dark like tee and doesn’t grow at all. Can you perhaps tell me what it is I’m doing wrong? Thank you so much.
I didn't realize this video was made for American people only and my eggsells turned black before I understood you are not giving the celsius temperature scale.
Pearl is in Bishopville, SC His topiaries are beautiful! To my knowledge, he's still alive at 84 years old and has an apprentice to carry on his passion.
