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Comment on Use Your Coldframe All Year by Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:48:15 +0000

Barbara, sometimes it just takes someone bringing up the subject and a couple ideas that spark more ideas of your own.

Comment on Use Your Coldframe All Year by Barbara Stewart

Barbara Stewart — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:05:56 +0000

Cindy – I’m so glad you posted this. Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to keep my cold frames in production all year. Thanks for the ideas!

Comment on Use Your Coldframe All Year by Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:22:35 +0000

Zoa, the first coldframe you see is 3′x6′ because that’s the size glass I had to cover it with. The new one in the bottom picture is 4′x8′. I used the directions from Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman. They sit on 3 1/2″ wide solid cement blocks to raise them off of wet ground. The water table is high there in the spring. I’ve written more about season extension at http://homeplaceearth.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/managing-a-cold-frame-low-tunnel-or-mini-greenhouse/.

Comment on Use Your Coldframe All Year by Zoa Conner

Zoa Conner — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:02:32 +0000

What are the dimensions of your cold frame? Are those concrete or stone blocks at the base (to absorb and release heat I presume)? I am wondering how you constructed your cold frame.

Comment on Succession Planting by Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth

Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:08:44 +0000

[…] will know what you need ahead of time and can plan your coldframe plantings accordingly. My post on Succession Planting will also give you some ideas for using summer […]

Comment on Making a Garden Map by Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth

Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:08:41 +0000

[…] will be in your garden for the year. For a refresher for that kind of planning, read my post on Making a Garden Map. You will know what you need ahead of time and can plan your coldframe plantings accordingly. My […]

Comment on Grow Your Own Sweet Potato Slips by Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth

Use Your Coldframe All Year | Homeplace Earth — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:08:38 +0000

[…] It is time to have the tomatoes out of the coldframe, so what’s next? I mentioned that the sweet potatoes went in after the tomatoes. I often don’t plant the sweet potato slips in the garden until about June 7. I’m always anxious, wondering if they will come up in the coldframe or if I should have started the sweet potatoes in jars of water in the house. Then the slips appear and take off. So, if you are anxious, also, have faith. When the weather is right, they will grow. Sweet potatoes like to be warm, so I keep the coldframe lids handy for longer than might be necessary. Learn more about growing your own sweet potato slips at http://homeplaceearth.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/grow-your-own-sweet-potato-slips/ […]

Comment on About Cindy Conner by Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:14 +0000

Hi Erika,

Nuts are really oily, so when you grind them, the results would not be dry like when you grind wheat. That said, I haven’t ground nuts, although I did make peanut butter once–it’s easier to just eat the peanuts. If you are gluten intolerant you should read Carol Deppe’s book The Resilient Gardener. She also avoids gluten and has developed her own cornbread recipes that don’t include wheat. Besides corn, sorghum is also a something you can grow and grind in your mill. I sometimes use sorghum in recipes instead of wheat if I have a gluten sensitive friend coming. If I had some nuts that I didn’t have to shell right now, and had the time, I’d try some for you, but I all my nuts are in shells and I’m pressed for time. Besides, I’d have to take the mill apart to clean it afterward, which I don’t have to do when grinding grains.

Cindy

Comment on About Cindy Conner by Erika Leifson

Erika Leifson — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:27:34 +0000

Dear Cindy,
Hello, I was wondering if you had tested your Grain Maker for grinding nuts? I am gluten intolerant and live off-grid and would love to make some nut flour for baking, and I am trying to decide on a mill. I have contacted the makers of the mill, and they said it would only make nut butter, but I find that hard to believe, because if it can make nut butter, wouldn’t it be able to make nut flour? Anywho I was hoping that a real customer with experience would maybe be able to explain it better, or at least test it for me if it’s not too much trouble? Thanks a bunch, Erika.

Comment on Chicken House Tips by Cindy Conner

Cindy Conner — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:31:49 +0000

Joanna, you could try putting fake eggs in the nest box. They are made of plastic or wood. The idea is that the snake will swallow it and then can’t crush it or digest it. When I suspect I have a snake eating eggs I make more frequent trips to the chicken house to collect them during the day, before the snake gets them. That’s too bad about your broody hen. I don’t put chicks in the chicken house until I think they are big enough that a snake won’t eat them. It is usually a seasonal problem. We try to remove them, also. If you know anyone who says they’ve never had trouble with snakes eating eggs, they’ve not had chickens long enough.