Recent content by SKR8PN

Here is a shot or two of my tinkering so far..... This is the size of the door opening and the angle of the front glass wall, and kinda sorta the roof line. This is about the size of the two beds,the area down the center is to be the walkway. The concrete is going to be trimmed back to almost...

Thanks for ideas Pat! The sliders are a done deal since I had to special order them, and I just found out they are on their way. :cool: One of the reasons I went with thermo-pane insulated vinyl sliders, was so I can also ventilate it and keep it cooler during the summer months. These are...

I am in the planning/early building stages of what I hope will be,a totally solar greenhouse. We live in North Central Ohio, and I am going to attempt to grow food year round without adding ANY external heat source for this greenhouse. Here is where I am at so far...... The shed was just built...

Robbobbin, your gonna LOVE that new pressure canner!! I just received my order from Presto today. I ordered an extra upper and lower handle,two pressure gauges, and extra popup lid locker thing, and two extra lid seals, just in case something happens halfway thru a canning session, we have spare...

Over the years,I'll bet I have bought 1000 tomato cages,and every one of them fell apart before the season ended. Last season,I decided I was going to build the MOTHER of all tomato cages, so I bought a roll of concrete reinforcing wire. It looks like farm fence on steroids. The roll was 5ft...

I have a Trac-Vac that I hook to my tractor. The mower deck chops them up, then the Vac sucks and shreds them a second time and puts them in the trailer. I back up to my compost pile and dump it out. Easy-peasy. http://www.trac-vac.com

I'd eat'm till the juice ran out my ears.;)

We have TWO of the Presto 16 qt units and use them quite a bit. We have two so we can have one heating up while the other is cooling down. We also invested in the extra canning rack for each one so we can process 14 pints at one time. If you don't have one,I would HIGHLY recommend you get a...