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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.

Thank you! This was a fun one my son and I did in some free time, we wanna make a larger better version that’ll last longer

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!

@@Earthdwellershomestead I will check those out and thanks a lot for your response and the awesome vids!

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

Very nice! I’m trying to use it around the annual gardens as well as fruit trees and bushes

@@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.

Thanks for checking this out!

Thank you!

Roundabout Rockford Illinois area

Right,, that was including shipping ect. We’ve made a row of bushes of these from propagating.

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

5a/4b thank you!

A shady window sill, or anywhere with ambient not direct light

Nice! What kinda turtles ? We’ve got plenty of fish, frogs and toads around but we only see the occasional snapping turtle in the wet 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.

@d4rk4ngel132 very cool. Sounds like good system your working!

@@Earthdwellershomestead 3rd year gardening and with the help from my research, your videos and some other homesteaders/gardeners it's produced well for us.

Thank you!

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

Thank you!

It’s the clash of the “titans”

The alpha roo’s are not as nice lol

lol kinda looks that way.

A pump

Yep, a very small solar powered pump fills from the lower tank. Great question

8’ down

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.

@@Earthdwellershomestead how about like bad dirt that clog like a ball forming stuck there?

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.

Thank you!

Granny had me watching Mr Rodger’s before school! 😂 thanks for checking this one out!

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.

We’ve got a huge bush that we take cuttings from to sell, customers get a fruiting plant, faster. Great question!

The shell of our compost heater which was comprised of woodchips. Once we get to the inside it’s black gold

@@Earthdwellershomestead I doubt it, looks like it needed another 2 months

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!

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.

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!

@@Earthdwellershomestead Wow!! Thx! ❤🌻