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Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:
Wayne Firegarden wrote:I joined because of this thread 👍
Glad you joined us, Wayne. Are you looking to build one or do you have one built already? As you can see in previous post I had the ambition to sink a point in the winter run so I could have water there which presumably would not freeze because this little greenhouse is quite a lot warmer than the outside in winter. The closest source of water is the house, and that is 150 ft away. Not fun in winter!
I gave up on it: One problem was that I could not bring the equipment to *easily* sink a sand point down to water level. The roof is not quite high enough to accommodate the machinery. I used a post hole digger to gain some room, then I started sinking it by hand, with a pounder, but before too long, It just would not go down any more. I may have hit sandstone... It happens...
The other reason is that if I had water running there, it would be quite a lot wetter, Eventually, I think that they would manure badly enough that it might compromise that well. The soil is very sandy [35 ft of sand with first water at 10 ft.] [I'm not sure it would, but how do you reclaim a fouled water aquifer?]
Mike had mentioned making it warmer with a lot of dead leaves that would compost over the winter. I think that is an excellent idea: I "harvested" ["scored" is a better word, I think] just over 100 bags of dead leaves from folks in town that let me have theirs but I figured that my garden had to have first dibs on these leaves. This coming fall, my garden may not be so needy and I will put a few bags in there and hold a few more bags in reserve. The concept is sound, and these leaves will also go in the garden after they've been manured on all winter. Win-Win!