The happenings of a (mostly)one woman hobby farm with a lot of help from her parents, children and siblings.
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Saturday, December 7, 2013
coldest night of the winter--so far
So this morning weather.com is telling me that it is -15 degrees outside. The sun is not yet shining on the greenhouse so I head outside to check on how the greenhouse fared in this cold weather. It is 28 degrees with the little milkhouse heater running all night. Last year I used a second heater on really cold nights and when I was checking on things this fall in preparation for cold I discovered that the electronics of that little heater no longer worked and some of the plastic parts were a little misshapen (from melting?) so I am assuming that it died during the really hot weather this summer. I think the plants will survive an occasional cold night but if it looks like there will be a lot of cold I might want to replace the dead heater with another milkhouse heater. Our goal has always been to use as few resources as possible in the greenhouse but I want to keep the plants alive and thriving as well. There are a few more cold nights predicted this weekend and early next week but then it looks to be above zero lows for the rest of the 10 day forecast. I guess winter has arrived. It is supposed to be sunny today and that should warm things up nicely.
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