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  • From: deb <stufunlimited AT sbcglobal.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] solar tube question
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:34:14 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Gene,
My biggest issue is really with the amount of shade I have.  On my acre of
ground the one sunny spot I have only gets 4-6 hours of sun a day depending
on the time of year and the trees I have are all huge...100' plus and most
are the reason I bought the property.  I do grow cooking and medicinal herbs
and have raised broc and snap peas.  I do grow some herbs under lights in the
winter for cooking, but the cost of running enough lighting to produce an
adequate amount of food seems prohibitive to me right now.    I am also
slighly disabled and full production in an outside environment is not
something I can physically do.  I can't think of anything I grow that would
be considered 'special', with the exception of some white sage plants I am
trying out which are used for Native American cleansing rituals.  I feared it
wouldn't work, but thought I would check with you guys to make sure.
Thanks for the input.
Deb


----- Original Message ----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:49:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] solar tube question


On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:20 PM, deb wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I've been a lurker here for awhile and I finally have a question for 
> all of you.  Has anyone tried to use solar tubes to bring in light 
> to grow vegetables?  I live in a huge hardwood forrest, don't want 
> to cut the trees and have sooo many deer that growing veggies 
> outside is almost impossible.  I do have a clear spot over my house 
> that gets sun so I thought if I could install some solar tubes and 
> run them to the basement, I could garden there without increasing my 
> electric usage (bad for the planet and my pocketbook) and not 
> fattening up the local deer population.  Any and all thoughts are 
> appreciated.
> Deb in Indiana
> ____________

Hi, Deb. It doesn't sound right to me. For substantial light to travel 
from rooftop to basement you would need larger tubes than I have seen. 
There are other issues. In addition to light, plants need lots of 
carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.

Are you wanting to grow, um, special plants?

Double fences will stop deer. They can jump one but won't if they can 
see that their noses will slam into the second fence. Six feet between 
fences worked here.

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>Is there any book or source you could recommend on
>owner-built small-scale bridges (foot, tractor)? I'm
>thinking of something along the lines you see in state
>parks, etc.

One of the Fine Homebuilding books of a collection of magazine articles has
at least one article on building a bridge of local materials. Unfortunately
like so much of my life it is in storage and inaccessible.

Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html





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