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Re: question about Wall O Water

Hi Susan... this season I had a huge amount of success using the old
fashioned method of fermenting straw to generate heat for my special early
grafted tomato. Basically you get a bale of straw (not hay because of all
the seeds) and saturate it with nitrigen (organic or otherwise). It gets
real hot for about two weeks - then as it starts to cool you plant one
grafted tomato or two standard tomatoes in the bale. I made a plastic tent
to retain the heat at night and keep draughts away. The bale produced
warmth for about 6 weeks by which time Spring temperatures stabalised and
nature was in control. We do some pretty competative tomato growing around
my village.


Regards  Ian Gill
                        Westland  New Zealand 

> This year I plan on using water-filled milk bottles to create heat sinks
> near my early tomato plants and earth bank them in.  We are having a
> non-winter winter here in AR and the daffs are already blooming and we
have
> a crabapple and a plum tree ready to bloom.  Way too early!
> 
> Rich
> Purrfleece Farms
> 
> ----------
> > From: MJAspen@aol.com
> > To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> > Subject: question about Wall O Water
> > Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 9:02 AM
> > 
> > I am new to gardening, well, new at least to sucessful gardening.  I
have
> read
> > about Wall O Water but have never seen them in action.  I'm not sure
how
> they
> > work.  The pictures in the catalog show plants growing out over the
top. 
> Do
> > they first close the top untill the plants get too big or what?  I do
> > understand the physics involved a little like the energy required to
make
> the
> > water change state, so I do kind of believe the advertising but
> protecting
> > down to 16 degrees, is that realistic?  
> >      I live in Boulder County Colorado at an elevation of about 5000
ft. 
> The
> > average last frost suppousedly occurs on May 6th.  When could I put
seeds
> in
> > the ground, protected by these Wall O Water things to get a jump on the
> > weather?  I don't have the ability to start seeds indoors and then
> transplant,
> > for a number of reasons.  
> >      Thank you very much for any help that anybody may have for me.
> > 
> > MJ Aspen
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