Barrel staves finally found a home!
I think these are/were barrel staves. I found them on the side of the road in a pile of sticks one day about two years ago. I just loved the reddish paint on them and their rustic rusty junk quality. I have had them stashed for a while not exactly knowing what I wanted to do with them. I had seen a few ideas on pinterest. But this year, I finally got an idea for them. I wanted to recreate an outdoor holiday planter with metal orb I had seen on pinterest. Suddenly it occurred to me that I had these! I have them strapped together with zip ties for now, but I plan to have someone drill a hole through all three so I can add a nice big screw and finial. But for now, I will just add some more Christmas greenery to the top to hide that. I have them weighted in the bottom of the pot with a couple of rocks. The white faux birch branches light up. I need to add a bit more greenery to the center and possibly a lantern, but I am loving these all over again!
Sometimes my family or friends will comment on my collection of stashed garden junk. I hear them say, "what are you going to do with that?" I usually answer quite honestly, "As of today, I do not know. But I am sure an idea will come to me at some point!"
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agopopmama (Colorado, USDA z5) thanked tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱Related Discussions
For the water barrel skeptics
Comments (15)There's another problem with the water barrel idea. Someone conducted an experiment and found that the temperature of a 7-gallon container of water dropped at a rate of about 7 degrees F per hour. (Albeit the water temperature started at 87 and the ambient temperature was much cooler at 53. Obviously the rate of heat loss is going to be slower if the temperature differential is smaller) http://www.jc-solarhomes.com/COLLECTORS/Solar_Hot_Water_Calculations.htm What that means is that as the ambient inside of the greenhouse begins to go down, the water is going to be releasing its heat even though you don't need it at that time. For example, the temperature inside, without the water barrels, normally reaches 82 and then an hour later it goes down to 70. Suppose a heat loss rate of 4 degrees per hour. Now instead of being 70 degrees, with the water barrels the ambient inside temperature may be kept up at 74 degrees, while the temperature of the barrel will have already lost some heat, falling from 82 to 78 degrees. If this pattern keeps up, the water inside the barrels is always only going to stay a little bit warmer than the temperature inside the greenhouse, so that's not going to be warming things much when it comes to 8 hours later at 2am in the morning. You might need to use some insulation around the barrels to slow the heat release. (Perhaps the sides not facing the sun) What you would really need to do is to make sure the rate of heat loss from the barrels is substantially less than the normal rate of heat decrease in the greenhouse from the warmest part of the day to sunrise the next morning. Let's assume a 3pm temperature of 85 F and a temperature of 35 F the next morning 14 hours later. That would mean the rate of heat loss from the barrels would need to be less than about 3.6 degrees per hour if you wanted any heat to be saved up, from the warmest part of the day to the coldest. (At a 2.6 degree/hour heat loss rate from the barrels, the greenhouse could be 14 degrees warmer than it otherwise would be by 5am the following morning)...See Moreoak rain barrels
Comments (10)Hi I built a 5x10 x3 deep made of stacked 4x4's lined with a fiberglass tarp. Holds 1000 gallons for around 300 bucks . The problem has been that I couldn't resist planting it so now it's actually a water garden complete with fish . Obviosly this means I can't use all the water ,lol When I gave up my Marine aquarium I decided to use the tank for rainwater .150 gallons in a space 18x72. Same problem . Added plants and fish so can't use the water lol. Wasn't sure I could keep an aquarium outdoors but it's actually been easier than keeping one indoors. Have even been able to keep it warm through winter with a simple aquarium heater. with a boost from some styrofoam insulation on cold nights. I now use the aquarium as a reservoir for the waterfall. Guess what? I planted the entire face of that too lol What I need is some place to store rainwater for the terrestrial plants ?? lol gary...See Morefinally got our land, no house though, nervous, anyone done this
Comments (10)Jenk, I don't think you're crazy at all. Sometimes in life we make sacrifices to get ahead. The first time we moved to the country as a young married couple (we both grew up in the city), we only lived there for 6 months and our mobile home burned to the ground. So we were 21 years old and homeless. We built our first home then. That county had no building codes, and we just winged it. We lived with his mother for a few months and moved in when the house was nothing but bare block walls. We heated with a wood stove made out of a 55 gallon barrel. It was so cold in there that the ice in the toilets froze in the winter!! But we survived, finished that house and later sold it, built a much larger one and sold that one and are now at the age of 50 we are building our forever home. When we moved from that big house into this little single wide, we bought a 40' long overseas shipping container to store our stuff in. I got a set of shelving from a Wal-mart going-out-of-business auction so everything we own is stored neatly in the container on shelves. Now the end of this build is finally in sight and we can soon move into the new house. And not a minute too soon.....I am getting WAY too old for this!! I laid a bunch of tile this weekend and don't remember getting so sore last time I did tile work. lol!...See MoreMy latest, greatest and 'final' design- Final thoughts?
Comments (46)Still can't find that article but I did find inspiration photos for you. Several of them show banquettes with angled corners and round or oval tables that I think would work well in your space. I have to echo what rhome said. We're not trying to be harsh but we do see errors in your plan that we think you'll regret and, as someone already pointed out, you did ask for feedback. Even the best plans can benefit from feedback and tweaks so please don't take the advice personally. Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen & Bath Ideas: banquettes...See Morepopmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
5 years ago
NHBabs z4b-5a NH
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI do wish titles could be edited, but it really isn’t important. I am just a bit of a word nerd.
This is an old photo and it now doesn't have the netting since the voles ate these clematis. I still need to find a topper I like. It is pretty well hidden much of the year now since shrubs have grown up around it.
popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
5 years ago
citytransplant(zone5)
5 years agoarcy_gw
5 years agolove it!! We make pumkins and other things with the bands from the wagon wheels I had defining the back of my gardens for years. When they finally bit the dust I couldn't let go.
popmama (Colorado, USDA z5) thanked arcy_gwpopmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
5 years agoarcy_gw
5 years agoThank you popmama, I only wish they were still there. That is a "before" picture. We found them under all the vines and weeds that had control of our property when we bought it. They were well over 100 years old but only lasted 15 after I uncovered, drug and planted them. LOL Here is another "before" where the molecule sits now. My kids found it out exploring our first day in the house. It was less than 30 feet from my kitchen window.
It took some de-vine-ing too!!
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