| |
|
Entry Date
|
Nick Name
|
Location
|
|
Saturday, August 29, 2009
|
|
shazzy
|
Joliet, IL
|
 |
Entry 162 of 227 |
 |
|
|
|
and the green house experiment keeps going. with it still only 63 and cloudy at 1 pm, i decided to seal up the vented side on the house side and threw up a 10' wide by 50' long piece of tyvek as a gap filler so now the whole 1385 and 1161 plants are mostly sealed up except the west fence line. it is still real windy and cloudy today and any heat being accumulated was blowing on through too easily. the next 4 days are gonna have lower winds and should be sunny, so the greenhouse effect should kick full force on those days. the 6 mil plastic is holding up great in the 30 mph gusts too. and now with it sealed up to the house, the heat from the brown brick is not being lost either. tonight after the winds die down, i will seal up the fence line with visqueen, and totally seal her shut. extension cords are already extended to each plant throughout the year, so i might as well throw in the space heaters by the 1385 plant. i won't trap that much heat with this size of a greenhouse with only 2 space heaters, but still i am going try it, set the alarm for 3 am, and go get some air temp reading inside and outside the greenhouse near the 1385 plant. i would use my high low thermometers if i could find them. i figure with 2 space heaters, the trapped ground heat, and the stored heat in the adjoining house, i can keep it up maybe 5 degrees. tonight that is not a big deal as it is supposed to be in the high 40s. if i can get the system down before tomorrow night i will be happier cuz some forecasts show as low as 42 and then 44 mon. night. what else am i gonna do this time of year? i swear, i am having more fun watching the neighbors look at me like i have 2 heads than i am playing "McGuiver". all this for a few more inches.....
that is what she said.
|
|
|
