Thanks so much, everyone This is exactly the kind of input I was looking for.
I saw a youtube video where someone was heating a greenhouse with a hot tub. Heating it up with electricity and uncovering it in the greenhouse at night, but keeping it covered the rest of the time. This was to scavenge heat off a hot tub they were going to use anyway. Maybe you could put a hot tub in the little greenhouse and keep the temperature up so you didn't have to use as much electricity. I also saw that someone was scavenging heat off a sauna.
I wonder if people are using it to create a microclimate within the greenhouse or for something else like to bring extra heat in that is disbursed to the larger greenhouse. No idea if that's enough volume to make an impact on the larger space. I could not see for sure in the photo if there were plants inside the greenhouse - it kind of looked like there weren't.
I was looking at a photo on another site and noticed in the background somebody had a greenhouse, maybe 6 x 8 feet, within a much larger greenhouse. Is anybody on this site doing that? Can you bestow your wisdom about how you are using it, or point me towards some info someone else has written about this?
Nat Kadziel wrote: I mentioned before money is limited but I found what I think is a reasonably priced landscape contractor and I have a bit of a nursery from starting fruit, nut trees and shrubs from seed or softwood cuttings. Any advice/cost saving measures are appreciated.
Natalie
Another idea - maybe you can connect with some other permies or other growers in your area - like if you can find a WOOF directory, and reach out to them with bartering opportunities or if you feel comfortable, surplus freebies.
Maybe also check out David the Good's book "Free Plants for Everyone", which has some interesting propagation techniques.
Nat Kadziel wrote:
I have a bit of a nursery from starting fruit, nut trees and shrubs from seed or softwood cuttings. Any advice/cost saving measures are appreciated.
Natalie
What about taking some of what you have or can get using the suggestions people are posting - to a plant exchange in order to get more variety?
Can you get some grape vine cuttings?
Also, do you have a spice drawer in your kitchen, or friends who do? Maybe root around in there for some seeds and see if they grow. How about dried beans, rhizomes or root veggies from the kitchen? Some might not come up, but they cost almost nothing to try. Maybe some nuts that you can get ahold of foraging or elsewhere. I've heard smashing up moldy berries and planting them will do the job, but I don't have my land yet (I'm a pre-Newbie lol) so am not sure whether the mold is good or bad.
Jane Mulberry wrote: If someone cancels their first pledge then makes a whole new one, then they lose the earlybird rewards. But doing it the way I showed, Kickstarter treats it as if yoiu pledged the higher level right from the first pledge. Does that make sense.
Yes - thanks very much. Just making sure because that's some pretty good loot in the earlybird rewards!
Jane Mulberry wrote:Here's how I upped my backer level:
Go to the Kickstarter and log in. Top right corner shows "Manage your pledge". Click there. Next page has a couple of blue buttons, one to change payment method, and the next one down is the one you want. Clicking that takes you to a page with all the different pledge levels. Just clcik the level you want to upgrade to. Note the third screenshot shows where to click. If you just change the $ amount in the box, that means you are giving more money but staying at the same pledge level. The place to click is the tiny barely visible circle in the top left corner of the box for your desired level. MIne shows the tick where I clicked. It's almost invisible till it's clicked!
That's how it looks on my Chromebook running Chrome, could look difgerent on other devices and browsers.
Okay, I'm confused. If you fix it now, does it think you "cancelled" your original pledge so that you lose all your earlybird stuff? Thanks to whoever knows.
Dave Halsey, who has a great permaculture site in Prior Lake Minnesota (probably Zone 5) mentioned the Natural Capital Plant Database, which is here: https://permacultureplantdata.com/ He has a video on youtube "Ecological Designer Daniel Halsey hosts Geoff Lawton..." where he talks about how he puts a design together, and mentions that in one of the steps.
Living Woods Magazine coveres everything from copicing, pollarding, carving, forestry, wattle fences, conservation, and so much more. Each issue is full of informative articles. You can find out more here!
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Could you please check that "You can find out more here" link? Looks like it links to the image of a button that doesn't do anything. Thanks!!
