[Homestead] Garlic

Jeanne Driese jeanne13 at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 31 13:07:18 EDT 2008


Gene,
In the winter I keep an open container of water on the heater, it uses anywhere between a quart and a half gallon per day during the coldest part of winter.  Unfortunatly I heat with propane at this time, but my house is passive solar heated  so the cost is not too high inspite of the cost per gallon.  Wood would be my choice, but as a woman turning 73, and having to haul everything up 47 steps or down a slope from the woods, and I am not too good with the saw or ax either, it is propane.
Did I mention that my house is only 340 square feet?
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gene GeRue 
  To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garlic



  On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Jeanne Driese wrote:

  > Is it humid in TN????  That is like asking if the Pope is Catholic!

  It is very humid in southern Missouri, most especially on a warm day  
  following rain. But I asked Moon if it was humid in the wintertime. In  
  the house at Heartwood the air is dry during the winter, for two  
  reasons: cold air holds less moisture, and heating fires drive out  
  moisture. Furniture is ideally designed to handle summer wood  
  expansion and winter wood contraction. Hell on wood joints.

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