Hightunnel: Heating System, Water System and More!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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Love this trenching idea for water conservation and minimizing having to water inside the greenhouse
We still have to water a ton for little seedlings, but plants like the figs and other perennials will benefit immensely from passive water being offered I think
I appreciate you sharing all your creative projects! It's good to try to come up with new/better ways of doing things. You inspire me to think outside the box
Tis always a pleasure to watch your videos, Thanks!
I am glad you enjoy them!
As someone from a northern state on the other side of the country (zone 4b), i love seeing your videos! I started a garden last year, but I wasn't great about checking it regularly enough. I still had a great harvest, though. I am hoping that this year, I will have a better harvest and be more attentive to the plants.
Wow, this is a very complex greenhouse. Well done.
Thanks!
You are very industrious. I like your different techniques and ways you repurpose things on your farm
Brilliant! This is a great example of working with the land and naturally automating processes. Thanks for sharing your innovations.
Happy to share
So lovely to see this!!! Makes me think that maybe water is the culprit of your not efficiently flowing air pipe. Your soil has clay in it, right? So the perforated pipe in this context might be the problem, and the clay obstructs the water from flowing away. Much love!
That could be, now that its cleared out and allowed to flow in both directions we'll see if things improve
Thank you.
Hey Sean, I think you may lose some heat to the water channel as your warm air pipe is running right through that wet area. Sort of an air cooling effect, like a condenser AC unit. Your working fluid (the warm air) will likely release more of its heat to the surrounding ground if it’s sitting in water or if the ground around it is saturated. If you want to optimize the heat transfer from the fan in that low tunnel to the base of the water tank, I would run it through an area that stays drier. Or maybe keep it where it is and bring the water in a different way. Or change nothing, it’s probably not that big of a deal either way, I just thought I’d share if you’re curious.
I understand your concern and something to keep in mind for future projects, but changing nothing might be the move right now since the layout of the place is really pretty locked in... Learning as I go!
@@edibleacres I think the condensation and air flow contributed to the composting action.
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I think I'd NEED an axe to get into my wood chip pile. If we ever have two sunny days together, maybe throw a piece of that plastic over the pile, then sharpen the pickaxe!
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If you stored water tank next to hot compost wouldn’t that help keep water from freezing?
For sure, but that isn't how it was laid out and now the main structure and layout is pretty set up. Something to consider for next time!
Great work, your living my dream. What you think about piling free leaves on the south wall for isolation and to work as real slow heat pile?
This is dope my friend.
Glad you think so!
Great ideas n a budget😊
Trying to share ways to do things without a ton of new stuff...
Rough but exciting
Im itching to see some things begin growth! What is the first plant or plants that break dormancy for you? In the woods I know skunk cabbage seems to get going around mid February here in zone 6b. As far as in the food forest I know hazelnuts open their flower structures quite early. My hazelnuts are not that mature yet, so last year my first food forest flowers were on my 'Berry Blue' haskaps on March 15th. And the very first flowers aside from woody plants like witch hazel; were snowdrops and then squill.
Nice shirt 😉
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Don't the wood chips absorb the water? I had placed bark mulch in mini swales then pulled half of them out not wanting to rob the bed downslope from soaking up the water.
Water on the outside length of the greenhouse will also percolate inwards. No need for connection to the inside for ALL the water to be in the middle. Trenches either side is enough.
The trench is needed to get water to the middle. I've directly observed for a while here and water sitting on the outer edges doesn't move 7+ feet to the center in a passive way, at least with our context and soils... With our cattle panel high tunnels I'd agree, a few feet is enough for standing water to slowly wick in...
Another question from me. Why didn't you just set the solar panel and fan at the other end of the tunnel, and have a short pipe to the IBC tank?
Having the pipe run under the whole walkway allows some of the excess warmth to be stored in woodchips in the walkway. It acts as a way to wick thermal energy into a longer space
I believe so that the warmth dissipates into the beds as it travels instead of skipping that heat gain taking it directly to the tank
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what's the dimension of this hightunnel?
Isn't water going to seep into the perforated pipe?
Yes, but that should allow it to then flow along the length of it and back out
Try laying a black trash bag over a section of wood chips in the sunlight.
That may warm them enough. 🤞 -KJ
I thought maybe a large clear plastic weighed down could help, but its not super sunny there and it's SO frozen! A pick axe will probably be the deal, oh well :)
That pipe should be buried, and isolated. If you do not burry, and isolate it then you would be leaving it vulnerable, so any wild creature could try to damage it.
I saw the same kind of pipe being used, and it is not used like how you are using it on your video.
Yep, perforated pipe isn't ideal as I said, but where it is ideal is that it existed in the landscape already and I didn't go and buy new plastic!
I wonder how you missed the fact that the pipe was, and is going to be again, buried.
@@edibleacres I recently learned about the perforated pipe, and how it is suppose to be used, and I am talking about this year 2025.
Unfortunately you are using your pipe wrong.
What I would do if I were you is remove the pipe from the ground. All I have to say is if you want to properly use your pipe then you have to do more work.
Do you know why people use perforated pipes?
Based on what you are showing on your video, you do not understand how it is suppose to be used.
@@yLeprechaun The pipe is being used the wrong way. I said buried, and isolated.
1. Buried
2. Isolated
The isolation part is not understood! I guess what I said could be taken in the wrong context. If the pipe is not properly setup then problems can develop, and for your information it does not look like the pipe was properly setup to me, so someone has research to do. :)
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled LMAO @ U 🤣
It's too much effort and a lot of investment for such a small greenhouse. The impact of the crop increase will be minimal. Such projects will be effective on sites at least 10 times larger.
OK, sounds like what I'm doing wouldn't be what you are doing!
@@edibleacres Have I had a lot free time and extra money-- i would do the same. Never mind.
Think of all the effort he's going to save on having to water tho.. Digging a small trench in the off-season seems like a worthwhile project. Doesn't take hardly any effort unless you're elderly
@@wesh388 Digging and excavate the trench again, clean the pipe, use the shovel again. For me it takes too much effort and time. This pipe needs to be replaced for a 1.5 mm thick all-metal pipe that won't be chewed through by mice