RE: After a brush with Covid, it's back to blogging for me!
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My reward for that was 20 litres or so of ice cold water straight onto my head.
oh bugger! Jamie always kills himself laughing when I accidentally splash myself with the hose. It happens more than you think.
Covid is SO inconvient. And for me, recovery is taking WEEKS. Still, I dont want to get a cold on top of that, so appreciate it when people wear masks/stay at home if they have a cold too!
I just planted some mortgage lifter tomato seeds, and will be planting more seeds over the next week, although I worry I'm too early! Hence I think i'll stagger over the next weeks and see how we go, keeping record as an experiment. Have my capsicum/chilli seeds in (moooorreee jalapeno this year!) and the eggplant too.
I've not minded wearing masks when I'm sick. It's a habit I saw when I was in Asia.
Definitely nurse the Solanums. With global weirding, who knows - we might have extended cold.
Yeah glad I have the polytunnel but in this cold wet snap even that's not enough. Wish I could afford some polycarbonate sheeting...
A permanent structure that you can heat is a dream of ours too. I'm doing a post on a DIY solar heater soon that you might be interested in.
Oh yes let me know when it's done!
I do fill a black bucket with water/comfrey etc and put it under the seedlings in spring. Heats up during day, releases warmth at night - at least that's the theory. Who knows if it works.
That's an excellent idea. It's called thermal mass. I know folks who have black drums full of water or sump oil to absorb heat in the daytime and radiate it out over night. Your technique may also generate a little heat through the fermentation.
There's an old technique to make ice that uses the principle of black body radiationt o make a black object put out more heat than it stores. It was used by settlers and folks in arid lands to get a little cooler.