Andre Spicer

Hi all. I planted some small blueberry starters outside a few weeks ago. Amended the soil, watered them in well, etc. I read somewhere that they can be planted in cold conditions so I didn't think much of it. Then a late frost happened and 4 out of 5 of them lost all of their leaves. (I didn't cover them - argh!)

My question - Are they toast? Or is it possible they can start over again if the roots are intact? My one hope there is that I mulched them all in under a thick layer of straw. However, I don't want to keep tending them only to find in a couple of months that they've gone to that big compost bin in the sky.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Thank you Anne, I appreciate it.

For anyone else who might have hints or more info on my above question, I'll add this: did you go with straight clay slip, sand mixed mortar, a mix of the two? Or even refractory cement from the brickyard? I'm a newbie so I'm trying to find as many pros / cons as possible.

Cheers all!

Hi all. I have a goodly sized pile of clay in my backyard that I dug out of a pond I built this past summer, so I think I have enough of that to build a mass (and presumably to mix with the perlite underneath the heater). However, my understanding is that I want some pretty well processed clay from a pottery supply store in order to put the firebricks together in the heater itself. I'm planning to make a 6 inch rocket heater and I have an opportunity to travel to the place where I can get the clay (they don't sell it in my home province), so I want to make sure I have enough for this purpose. Does anyone have any rules of thumb as to how much I should get to ensure I don't run out?

Also, is there a specific fire clay to use or avoid? I assume anything from a professional pottery supply place is going to fit the definition of 'fire clay'. Do I go with stoneware? Earthenware? Does it matter? Also, is there some advantage to porcelain over these other clays, and if so, is that make or break?

Thanks in advance!

jordan barton wrote:Usually what happens is the email you used for supporting the kickstarter is different than the email used on permies.

On your profile you will find a tab to add a secondary email address. Try adding the email address you used for kickstarter to your permies account.
its listed under Email preferences.

Success! Thank you very much for your help, Jordan.

Hello. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this message, but I'm trying to get in touch with Paul Wheaton's Low Tech Lab. I contributed to the kickstarter and am trying to access the "Everything in 'thanks' " items, but when I click the links for both the rewards and for the support page (https://permies.com/f/498/tech-laboratory-support), I'm getting a message that says,

Oooops.. You don't have sufficient privileges to access this forum

If anyone has any ideas of what I'm doing wrong, I'd appreciate the input.

Cheers,
M-A