Kinda makes me which I had a Farm like the one we had when I was a kid/teenage. I wish my grandparents would have kept it in the family . Lots of good memories but it was also lots hard work . Thanks .
Robert (QSLV)
June 5, 2018 2:46 pm
Salt of the earth. The 6 foot deep tubes are a revolutionary concept. Degreed engineers can only come up with deep wells and expensive heat pumps. This guy borrows a back hoe and sets up a system not imagined by all the degreed geniuses. Some corporation will try to steal his idea and charge him a user fee to run his own system.
I am designing a hillside herb and vegetable garden here and plan to run drip lines through it all as I build it (putting one redundant line per bed), with three twenty foot beds spilling out into a fish pond, which will raise some sort of fish we want to eat. I am amazed at how much food we can grow in a small area and how damn good it is and how healthy we are after a couple of years living like this.
However, I need to find a way to get rid of ticks, chiggers and other bugs that ride on dogs and humans. While Nick and I have been married 26 plus years, we have only begun doing daily “tick checks” for each other this spring since really starting to work this land and stirring up all the ticks who had moved into our forested floor. The herb garden is built on that former floor, with the trees felled and cut up in neat stacks of firewood drying behind the barn.
We’ve been doing some work while I’ve been on hiatus. The place looks great.
Oh, we are collecting rainwater from the barn in a tank, then letting it gravity feed with a controlled drip line. That is the plan. I will let you know after the summer if the plan worked or required modification.
Maglita, I once went to my dermatologist for routine screening. She found two ticks on my back. This after visiting an area ripe with ticks. Though I have a dog, two outside cats, with raccoons, coyotes, foxes, skunks and bears ambulating across my property the many opossums of the hood combat the ticks.
You are welcome. I “discovered” Uncola on Mulberry Street and he is kind of like EC and my step-child’s weird college buddy from North Dakota. We are so proud of him!
nkit
June 5, 2018 3:29 pm
When my nieces would come to visit they would try to call my neighbor’s cows with this song. For some reason, they just loved the song.
For some reason I re share this cowpoke video that makes me smile. Warning, uncovered teats at 0.51
TC
June 6, 2018 9:17 am
One thing they didn’t cover about the greenhouse in Nebraska was how they pollinate the plants. Done by hand? Have their own honey bee hive that is part of the greenhouse?
I called him and asked that very question. Bumble bees, not honey bees. They seek shelter in there and live there year round.
Alfred1860
June 6, 2018 10:25 am
That greenhouse is awesome, but it would only work in areas that get almost daily winter sun (i.e. not the East). Just thought I’d mention that before someone in Maine tries it.
I don’t think you are correct on that. No matter where you are in the U.S. latitudes, the ground temp 8′ down will be constant, likely between 50 and 60 degrees. Even if you had overcast for a solid week, the greenhouse would not get lower than 40 or so if the fans were constantly running.
I’m seriously considering buying his design book and building this in upstate NY.
Kinda makes me which I had a Farm like the one we had when I was a kid/teenage. I wish my grandparents would have kept it in the family . Lots of good memories but it was also lots hard work . Thanks .
Salt of the earth. The 6 foot deep tubes are a revolutionary concept. Degreed engineers can only come up with deep wells and expensive heat pumps. This guy borrows a back hoe and sets up a system not imagined by all the degreed geniuses. Some corporation will try to steal his idea and charge him a user fee to run his own system.
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Robert (QSLV)
I am designing a hillside herb and vegetable garden here and plan to run drip lines through it all as I build it (putting one redundant line per bed), with three twenty foot beds spilling out into a fish pond, which will raise some sort of fish we want to eat. I am amazed at how much food we can grow in a small area and how damn good it is and how healthy we are after a couple of years living like this.
However, I need to find a way to get rid of ticks, chiggers and other bugs that ride on dogs and humans. While Nick and I have been married 26 plus years, we have only begun doing daily “tick checks” for each other this spring since really starting to work this land and stirring up all the ticks who had moved into our forested floor. The herb garden is built on that former floor, with the trees felled and cut up in neat stacks of firewood drying behind the barn.
We’ve been doing some work while I’ve been on hiatus. The place looks great.
Oh, we are collecting rainwater from the barn in a tank, then letting it gravity feed with a controlled drip line. That is the plan. I will let you know after the summer if the plan worked or required modification.
Maggie, try putting some sulphur down to rid your area of chiggers and other nasty bugs. Works here in north Texas.
I will look at sulphur! Thx
Maglita, I once went to my dermatologist for routine screening. She found two ticks on my back. This after visiting an area ripe with ticks. Though I have a dog, two outside cats, with raccoons, coyotes, foxes, skunks and bears ambulating across my property the many opossums of the hood combat the ticks.
“DID YOU KNOW THAT OPOSSUMS EAT VIRTUALLY ALL THE TICKS IN YOUR YARD?”
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/know-opossums-eat-virtually-ticks-yard/
Possum are tick eaters?
Guinea hens eat all the ticks, and are fun to have around.
Love these 2 posts. Thx!
You are welcome. I “discovered” Uncola on Mulberry Street and he is kind of like EC and my step-child’s weird college buddy from North Dakota. We are so proud of him!
When my nieces would come to visit they would try to call my neighbor’s cows with this song. For some reason, they just loved the song.
For some reason I re share this cowpoke video that makes me smile. Warning, uncovered teats at 0.51
One thing they didn’t cover about the greenhouse in Nebraska was how they pollinate the plants. Done by hand? Have their own honey bee hive that is part of the greenhouse?
I called him and asked that very question. Bumble bees, not honey bees. They seek shelter in there and live there year round.
That greenhouse is awesome, but it would only work in areas that get almost daily winter sun (i.e. not the East). Just thought I’d mention that before someone in Maine tries it.
I don’t think you are correct on that. No matter where you are in the U.S. latitudes, the ground temp 8′ down will be constant, likely between 50 and 60 degrees. Even if you had overcast for a solid week, the greenhouse would not get lower than 40 or so if the fans were constantly running.
I’m seriously considering buying his design book and building this in upstate NY.