Thank you! Just trying to share little bits while we had/have a blast!

Thinking two of three nuggets are, great answer!

Do you have the black beetles around you? They strip the trees, usually it looks like the top of your tree is burnt or dying.

Yep I stuck the cutting in there a month ago

@@Iz0pen a well built pile will heat up in 24-48 hours in warm weather and can take 2-4 days in winter, depending on size your pile can go for two weeks to almost two years, our woodchips are fresh and old mixed with added nitrogen 75% carbon to 25% nitrogen roughly( give or take) sometimes more nitrogen is needed sometimes less depending on the size of chips and freshness. I’d encourage you to check out the Jean pain compost heating playlist with more in depth Info we’ve shared over the last few years of doing this. Thanks for the questions

@@Earthdwellershomestead Thanks for the reply, I’m working my way through the playlist now. Thanks again!👍

These straw bales sat for over a year getting rained on and dried out, plus the local farmer I got them from doesn’t spray the straw. That’s a great point for people to look into though!

Thank you, the comfrey blanketing the base of the Bartlett pears really helps them, and I can just chop and drop it when mowing.

Hand dug this 8- 8 1/2 feet down directly under my walkway, it certainly does make a difference summer or winter. However in summer I shut it down when I open the doors to avoid moisture build up ect. The temps coming out are 50-60f depending on the intake temps. Winter 50+, summer 60f

Honestly I’ve used it for everything I’ve propagated. Softwood, hardwood, and everything in between. I’ve not found anything it doesn’t aid in development. I’m sure there is something out there that won’t like it but we haven’t came across that plant yet lol. Good question!

My apologies: one foot squared is a foot by a foot as a square or a tile worth of space ; think of them as full squares of space to figure the image of space needed

Old English bantam. He’s a pet anymore lol

Yeah we have a lot of those❤❤

Thank you! There’s a lot we don’t share as we can’t always be filming, sometimes we gotta just have fun in the moments. Thanks for checking this out, plenty more to come

Our northern most wall has rigid foam insulation on it already, the double layer acts as an all around layer of insulation or buffer layer from inside to outside. The next greenhouse we build will be over insulated for winter. I’ve thought about making a black northern wall but in the summer it would be too much heat absorption.

Thank you! This was a fun one my son and I did in some free time, we wanna make a larger better version that’ll last longer

We sourced 60f-80f all winter with water and air, I encourage you to look through the Jean pain compost heating playlist if you find it interesting. I’ve tried to share temps, growth, and overall operation/set. Thanks for checking this out!

@@Earthdwellershomestead I will check those out and thanks a lot for your response and the awesome vids!

You can get away with directly wiring a panel but it’s not safe for the mechanism as you could fry it. Try the fan separately. Let me know if that works

Thank you, my son and I are going to make some more bricks and readjust the first build and paste in some mud/clay around the outside. It’s a work in progress

Very nice! I’m trying to use it around the annual gardens as well as fruit trees and bushes

@@Earthdwellershomestead I have 40 chickens and 5 rabbits that love it and I have copious amounts of fall leaves that I mix comfrey leaves and chicken/rabbit manure into for next year.

Thanks for checking this out!

Thank you!

Roundabout Rockford Illinois area

Right,, that was including shipping ect. We’ve made a row of bushes of these from propagating.

Must have been comfrey #4 that seeds. We have blocking comfrey, it doesn’t have true seeds at least not that we’ve witnessed in 8 years. It can be invasive if we don’t plant the correct one for the job

5a/4b thank you!

A shady window sill, or anywhere with ambient not direct light

Nice! What kinda turtles ? We’ve got plenty of fish, frogs and toads around but we only see the occasional snapping turtle in the wet months.

@@Earthdwellershomestead we have 2 red eared sliders and a painted. High nitrogen water so I stop water the plants when they start fruiting. Also 2 guinea pigs so their bedding and waste go into the pile and cover the beds in the off seasons too.

@d4rk4ngel132 very cool. Sounds like good system your working!

@@Earthdwellershomestead 3rd year gardening and with the help from my research, your videos and some other homesteaders/gardeners it's produced well for us.

Thank you!

It’s a process to separate finer materials out but it’s well worth it! Thanks for checking this one out, and he want another bigger pond with more fish already lol

We don’t have many problems with potted plants, we’ve had aphids in the greenhouse over the winter in which case we released ladybugs 🐞 inside and they pretty much wiped out the aphids.

@@Earthdwellershomestead where do you get the ladybug if i may know? I don't know how to get rid spider mites without insecticide x.x I'm trying to avoid any chemical use.

@marcopolo9324 we ordered 1000 online for around 5-6$ this winter. I still see them in the greenhouse this spring and summer. I would have to refind the website and share it

Thank you!

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