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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Jeanne, do you have a south-facing window where you could build out  
and hang a planting box outside? Or, better, enlarge the window and do  
a substantial window box? That would provide winter veggies and help  
heat the house.

Yes I face the south and passive solar heat my entire house in the winter.  
My front yard is only 20 feet before I fall off the edge and down a hill.  It 
is not in my budget to do what you suggest.  It has been a dream to have a 
grow room, but in this economy and at my age of 74 I would not qualify for a 
loan and I do not really want one!.  No side yards and only a 15 foot deep 
back yard.   Will keep you all posted on how I do with the barrels in a 
raised bed with my flexible fiberglass rods and remay  to cover the plants.   
 My raised bed became full of roots from the forest, so I have gone to 21 
inch by18 inch deep black barrels sunk into about a foot of dirt. 
One great thing I have discovered is that the cats do not like the barrels so 
they do not use them for a bathroom like they did the raised bed!!! 
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6