I experimented with using the bung openings for secondary air. Using the 2" opening below the door screwing a pipe into it to the back of the barrel then elbow and riser so it worked like a batch box rocket stove. The pipe also serves as a floor so that you do not dig into the sand protecting the bottom of the stove from hot coals. The small bung can also use a pipe running the length of the top with holes drilled in it to burn smoke in the path along the top of the stove which is the design of the secondary air in my current commercial stove, This was in the 1970-80's before I heard about rocket mass heaters. Located in daylight basement with chimney up stairwell radiant heat below and cold air from upper floor went down the stairs and hot air went up the stair well.
Sorry I did not get to this response sooner. sounds like a good plan except do not train vines directly on chicken wire. Old vines that have finished and died will need to be removed and that is difficult when tangled in fencing. I wrap or tie them to a single wire above the fencing. Having a second wire for new growth that bears next year makes it easier. using twine instead of wire allows the whole section of dead vine to be cut out and disposed of.
Because many of my herbs are available year around in my climate I often make a fresh blend of them from the door step patch with possibly dry spice added where complementary. It only takes a few minuets to gather in a blender cup and chop.
Best I have found also helps with the waist stream. Vegetables are delivered to stores in corrugated paper boxes soaked in paraffin to waterproof it. These burn just like a candle without smoke. I made a video of me cutting them into strips and starting a fire with them and posted it on permies but the comment was that it was to dark and the worst video on YouTube so I wont post it again.
Permaculture where a tidy brush pile is considered nice looking.
Put up a sign "Preparing to plant a tree here. Keeep adding densly packed brush and wooody material here until planting time"
A new little forest floor in progress. Try it you might like it.
If the light is bright the short hours are not much of a problem for young plants that normally seed in fall and over winter or sprout as soil warms. So planting now is the normal cycle for what you suggested. The gradual increase of day length will stimulate storage root development instead of bolting to seed. My potatoes are coming up now and will be harvested in March.
A professor who put an invisible trap in his assignment found that 47% of the students had Ai wright there book review. He said those students will be like someone who was given just a hammer and nails and they think they can build a house.
(I already knew those darn French throw in letters just for looks, that you don't bother pronouncing...)
Actually an error of understanding language difference. It is not just for looks it is actually pronounced. Some languages like we are using here the important letters are consonants, So speaking the word it almost does not matter which vowel one uses. I learned from years of trying to hear and speak French that the vowel is what caries the meaning. A consonant without a fallowing vowel accents the preceding vowel. Therefore the the o is pronounced as in hot but in French the T does not close off the air flow but in English it does.
I have come to favoring the microwave. chopping them to small pieces and placing fatty meat on top they takeup the fat and juice which makes the nutrients of both more absorbable. My problem is my favorites are also deer favorites. Don't forget to garnish with the blossoms; hollyhocks and evening primrose are my favorites.
Yes deer browse on a schedule to avoid being seen. They remove leaves below 7 feet. I took a permaculture approach. My vines at trained on a wire 8 feet high above a 4 foot fence. The deer prune the excessive growth for me and don't jump over. I get good production on vines over 5 years old though many of them are 50 to 100 years old and 100 feet long.
