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Re: Stan's hot tomato

Stan, ol' buddy, I really enjoy your posts, but that tag line has got to
go!!!  Anyone who puts this much detailed effort into a tomato patch is
neither cheap nor lazy.

Steve  (Maritime...)


Ross E Stanford wrote:
> 
> 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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