Homestead Fail. 3 Things I Won't Do Again.
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Have you ever tried to do something only to find later in life you are taking out that very thing you spent so much time on? These are not a reason to quit! These are opportunities to learn and grow! We build a green house about two and a half years ago, and what you see is what is left. It did not last like we had hoped, however! We learned and our new green house is much better because of it!
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When I was a youngster my folks had a commercial gardens growing fuchsias predominantly. Our climate in the southern hemisphere location was temperate mountainous. Cool winter temperatures would get down to perhaps -2 degrees celsius for 4 to 6 weeks or something.
We had over and acre under cover, be it shade house or plastic house.
The plastic houses were built out of timber, 4x2 all painted with undercoat and topcoat. Around 100ft long and 25 or 30ft wide. And about 17ft roof apex.
There were two of these in the mix, spaced with a gap between to frame shade houses beside them.
So quite sizeable. And using agphane horticultural plastic even back then, nearly 40 years ago, the plastic lasted 10-15 years before beginning to become brittle etc.
The system used was to have timber 2x 1/2 inch battens ripped down from 4x2, also all painted, these were the final clamp off straps for the plastic. The structure built with the framing gridding out like, 3ft square frames to stretch the plastic over.
The battens would be readied, but the main trick to getting the plastic tight and it staying tight was the use of plastic packaging straping like is used to tie down boxes on pallets. You can get it by the roll or salavage it, having it by the roll we could run the strap over framing and down the other side, and along the ridge. The idea is it sits on top of the plastic and is sandwiched underneath the batten eventually. But like stretching a canvas you can use the plastic strapping, which conveniantly has the criss cross pattern for grip, as reinforcement for the staple gun staples and to be able to pull with tension to get the plastic nice and tight.
Running the strapping over the plastic and tacking it can held in making the job more efficient too. The battens can be tacked on and the same thing done to get the last bit of tension if needed. The battens nailed down with galv clouts, would clamp down nicely with tape and the plastic imprinting a nice grip.
By far a long winded post, but a definite winning tip when it comes to using timber and plastic, the house survived a few record storms.
Next, one of them was lined on the inside with frosted horticulture film, put up just with the strapping and staples. This increased the temp considerably. Both of these glass houses became unbearably hot in summer. Attention needed to be paid retrosepectively to ventilation methods in the roof. The floors were deep in sawdust as woodchip.
During the winter on those nights of frosts, there was 3 old style kerosene heaters lit inside which did the job.
Adjoined to one was a small platic house lean2 hotbed house. Its roof was only about 4 ft off the ground but there had been a trench pathway dug down the middle another 2 feet. So when you were stood in there the ground level hotbed layers were waist high. This was all a hotbed system for cuttings and the low roof and small space kept it staying warm. shade cloth, and window ventialtion needed to be applied during summer.
The hotbed was on water timer system before computers were cheap enough or technology clever enough, so my father had built a timer switch using a ballcock tap from a cistern or stock trough. He had a plastic bottle as a weight at the end, instead of the ball. The bottle had a small drip line out the bottom, that could be tuned as to how fast it would empty of water by the use of a small tap, and a peg. haha.
And the top of the bottle had an inlet with a fatter sprinkler tube running into it which also could be tuned to fill up with water at a required speed, with a small tap.
What resulted was a tap switch mechanism that would turn on the mister sprinklers for 30 seconds every 45 mins. etc.
Anyway, hope this was interesting and understandable.
Very interesting and useful! I'm going to pin this in hopes it helps other folks also! Thanks for taking the time to explain it!
@@FlannelFarms Your welcome, The strapping is a great thing even as little strips to staple through when putting up shade or wind cloth too.
Failures are a good education - thank you, Brian.
Happy Birthday Flower Flannel! 🎉 congratulations on your business growing. Another great video. Thank you for sharing and God bless y'all!
Happy birthday Flower Flannel!
We spent today pulling apart and rebuilding a new shed that we erected the framing of last week and the wind blew into a pile last night. Hopefully adding the roof and cladding will help make it stronger! Great to see the flower garden doing so well
Sheesh! Sometimes it feels like three steps forward two steps back!
A hot compost pile that is nitrogen heavy will do a good job to heat in winter. Permaculture zoning is real, and you elucidated it perfectly. Keep what you visit most closest to the house.
Happy Birthday Flower flannel
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That rat snake would make a cool rifle sling!
Having fun with the mini chainsaw you reviewed. Best part is I can still count to twenty!
Happy Birthday Flower Flannel!
Haha! Glad you like it my man!
You all have taught your children well. 😊 I'm going to check out that battery operated system. I don't like gas power stuff either.
Happy birthday flower flannel, congrats on the growth of your business, that’s amazing. You and my oldest share the same birthday month his bday is next week.
Hi Brian, I still liked that old greenhouse, it was neat for what it was. There's learning in everything. The new greenhouse is great. If you ever makes another, maybe geothermal might be fun to try?
More flowers, yay. A clutch of eggs. Yay. I even say yay to a snake.
Cool man
Happy Birthday Flower Flannel.
Brian there is another low cost heating system that you may or may not want to try and that is a hot compost just outside the greenhouse . The only $$ inputs are lots of hose a small fan and wire fencing The rest is waste marital from the farm. The most important thing is that the compost pile must be at least a yard by a yard by a yard . there are lots of tutorials on CZcams.
I'll look into it, thanks much!
Happy Birthday Miss Flower Flannel. Have you tried lots of perennial flowers, bulb or rhizome type of flowers or self seeding flowers?? It helps with not having to start so many seeds and transplants every year. Hope your flower business grows into more every year. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Just checking in. Glad to see you.
Thank you!
Can you put a link for your review so I can check it out and maybe buy it.
Done. I knew I was forgetting something.
@@FlannelFarms Thanks
It's not YOUR govt. It's the banksters'.
Agreed!
OK Brian, you made a tree and plastic greenhouse, it lasted 3 years and you think thats a FAILURE??? I BEG TO DIFFER. Turn.over your glass, look at it half full.
It failed in about 9 months, that's just what's left after 3 years lol. I did learn a lot and that's always a good thing though!
@@FlannelFarmsSomething great really. Learned...and the ingenuity to try from the natural products you used is amazing. Still standing in Hampton after a year.....❤y'all.
@faithevrlasting stay strong!