RE: heating cables
Perhaps a cheaper alternative is to build a greenhouse over your planting
area. I built a 16'x12' (approx 10'x12' once erected) PVC arch and covered
it with green-house plastic. The whole thing cost me about $15 in PVC and
$25 in plastic.
If you erect it well before you plant, it wall resolve multiple problems for
you. Mine covers two planting sites, it has warmed the soil about 20
degrees above outside (haven't measured it yet, ask John Maston) and it
protects the plants from a late frost. An earlier version also helped me
dry out the patch enough to till since my patch has been very wet this
spring.
Is there some advantage to the heating cables that I am missing?
-Gus
-----Original Message-----
From: pumpkinhead335@att.net [p*@att.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:18 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: heating cables
Frank
Go here
http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/catalog/index.cfm?
page=_Level1Display&CategoryId=419
John
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Columbus Ohio
Member IPGA OVGPG PGPGA
Personal best 570 in 2000
2002 goal 850
> I need help getting cables. Evidently Gurney's isn;t sending me the ones
I
> ordered. I checked CharysGreenhouse.com, and couldn't locate any on that
web
> site. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thank-you. Email off list if
you
> prefer.
>
> Frank O'Rourke
> E. Bridgewater, Mass
>
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