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Re: Stan's hot tomato

Hey Stan!

I am new here to the list and new to Colorado (5 days).   I am up around
8600feet and am ready to get started on my garden.  But I have never been
this 'high'.  Do you have any tips or know a resource I can tap into.  I do
have a beautiful south facing sun room that I could grow seedlings  in I
think - as well as permanent indorr plants (herbs and such).

My direct email address is charlenej.hmc@internetmci.com


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From: Ross E Stanford <stanford4334@juno.com>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re:  Stan's hot tomato
Date: Sunday, March 08, 1998 1:41 AM

Hi all.   I'm sorry I had to leave so suddenly.  I just got back.  That's
another reason that I need my garden to be as automatic as possible.  I
never know when I will be gone, or for how long.  
     Anyway,  I had my wife monitor the pyramid's temperature and she
said that it never went below 43 degrees F.  Looking good!  
     Right now there is about 12 inches of fresh snow on the ground.  The
pyramid is buried for the most part.  The snow is not melting off of it. 
(one bulb inside)  There are 9 other unprotected bulbs lit and just
laying on the dirt and no problems with tripping the ground fault
interrupter.  There is no snow on the lit bulbs of course.
The temp inside the pyramid reads 50 degrees.  The Denver temp says it is
6 degrees right now but it doesn't feel that cold here.  It is supposed
to go down to 0 degrees tonight.  This will be an excellent test of the
one bulb, 1.5 inches thick styrofoam setup.  If the temp stays above
freezing tonight, I am going to go into production of pyramids, and set
them out into the garden as soon as I can.
     I will detail the construction and prices as soon as I am finished
building them.  
My plan right now is to:
1.  Rototill a row of garden,
2.  Bury a length of soaker hose about 2 inches deep into the soil,
3.  Lay a 3 to 4 foot wide length of 6 mil AG black plastic film down the
whole row. ( I would like to use landscape fabric but it is too expensive
for this first test.  The plastic will be reusable each year).
4.  Lay out two strings of Christmas tree lights, one line plugged into
the next line up to a maximum of 50 feet.  (That's how long my soaker
hose is, and how long the garden is).  I will lay the string of bulbs
about 4 inches North of the soaker hose.
5.  In order to keep the bulbs upright and not burn a hole in the black
plastic, I intend to glue gun the back of the sockets to 4 inch square
pieces of scrap foil faced 1/2 inch styrofoam.
6.  I will cut (or melt) an small hole into the black plastic every 30
inches and plant 2 tomato seeds in each hole.  ( the light bulbs are
spaced every 15 inches on the string of lights.)
7. I will remove every other light bulb and fill the socket with glue gun
glue. ( this does work).
8.  I will then place a pyramid over each hole.

     OK people, help me out here, what am I doing wrong?  How could I
improve on this?  I still have to figure a way to keep the pyramids from
blowing away.  
      If I don't get any help from you, and this project doesn't work, I
will blame you, and not take the blame myself.  (That will help justify
throwing away the money spent on this, it will be your fault!)

     Stan.     The cheap and lazy gardener.
P.S.     Actually, the original Stan, (the one who was eaten by Fungus
Gnats) was my evil twin.  We were so much identical twins that we have
the same name and even the same E-mail address and identical gardens. 
Good riddance to him.

P.P.S.  The FBI has traced the origin of the Fungus Gnats back to
somewhere in South Western Michigan.  At first they thought they came
from New Zealand, but on closer examination they found that the New
Zealand Fungus Gnats have their feet attached to their head so that they
can walk upside down with ease and they also read using mirrors.

P.P.P.S.  If anybody doesn't like my posts, simply delete them without
wasting your time reading them.  It's really very simple to do.

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