On Aug 17, 12:32*am, "Farm1" wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Kay Lancaster wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:46:47 -0700, Todd
wrote:
Have any ideas that will hold up to 35 to 45 MPH winds three
times a week and 75 MPH gusts two or three times a year?
Got an old book for you to ask the library for: Winter Flowers in
Greenhouse
and Sun Heated Pit:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/winter...use-and-sun-he....
or the original Winter flowersin the sun-heated pit, including the
lean-to greenhouse as a complement to the pit:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/winter...-heated-pit-in....
Exact same principles hold for cold climate winter veggies -- and in
high wind
areas, the pit makes a lot of sense.
Kay
How would one prevent it from filling with water?
Put it on the side of a slope.
So a sun-ward facing slope with a little ridge upslope to take away the
water to either side, a plastic lid and keep the roos off. *Thinks......
The chap who I knew and who had the occasional roo problems, had 2 sun pits.
IIRC, one was in flattish ground (although I cna't now truly remember this
one) and the other was most definitely on the side of a slope. *I remember
the slope one best because I recall walking into it from the eastern side -
I can't recall though if he had some sort of door arrangement on it - I
dont' think so. *i might even try to call him and ask him aobut them and/or
see if he'd be amenable to having me come and photgraph them. *Mind you, if
I do do this, I'll bet I find that my memory is highly faulty.
This chap lives in a very moist place - he's had to plant his trees up on
mounds so waterlogging would be a potential problem for sunpits so he would
be interested in avoiding that. He also has a genuine Chinese walking
tractor which really impressed me.
***Could he have drained the area? Considering that the early Israeli
pioneers drained the malarial swamps along the ocean,
it doesn't seem like an insuperable task. Or was the area just too
large?
HB
HB