<http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/market-farming/2006-March/022649.html> Steve Diver steved at ncat.org Fri Mar 24 10:52:51 EST 2006 * Previous message: [Market-farming] goats/chicken * Next message: [Market-farming] Shoofly Pie Was root zone heating (Steve Diver) * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Friends - Talking about bottom heat reminds me of that time Garrison Keillor was doing a Prairie Home Companion program in Pennslyvania Dutch country. He was interviewing a spunky local woman about the wondeful Amish cooking in the region, and she was explaining the difference between a web bottom pie and a dry bottom pie. Then she turned the tables on Keillor and asked, "so, Garrison, which do you prefer, a dry bottom or a web bottom?" That was the only time I heard Garrison Keillor thrown for a loss of words.... sputtering... while the audience howled with laughter. OK, punning aside, the other source on root-zone heating I'll mention is the ATTRA publication. Root-Zone Heating for Greenhouse Crops http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/rootzone.html But be sure to request the print version and have it mailed to your farm house. It contains the printed articles from John Bartok and others, as well as the Rutgers bulletin, as enclosures. Fyi, I think the Rutgers University bulletin was one of the original sources and is still a key reference. But the online Clemson bulletin is probably just as good for an all-round summary of the technology. If you need the valueable agriculture experiment station articles from Carl Whitcomb's nursery research days at Oklahoma State University, dealing with solar hot water panels that fueled root-zone heating beds in greenhouses, contact me directly. Steve Diver http://www.attra.ncat.orgTitle: [Market-farming] root zone heating (Steve Diver)
[Market-farming] root zone heating (Steve Diver)Steve Diver steved at ncat.orgFri Mar 24 10:52:51 EST 2006
Friends - Talking about bottom heat reminds me of that time Garrison Keillor was doing a Prairie Home Companion program in Pennslyvania Dutch country. He was interviewing a spunky local woman about the wondeful Amish cooking in the region, and she was explaining the difference between a web bottom pie and a dry bottom pie. Then she turned the tables on Keillor and asked, "so, Garrison, which do you prefer, a dry bottom or a web bottom?" That was the only time I heard Garrison Keillor thrown for a loss of words.... sputtering... while the audience howled with laughter. OK, punning aside, the other source on root-zone heating I'll mention is the ATTRA publication. Root-Zone Heating for Greenhouse Crops http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/rootzone.html But be sure to request the print version and have it mailed to your farm house. It contains the printed articles from John Bartok and others, as well as the Rutgers bulletin, as enclosures. Fyi, I think the Rutgers University bulletin was one of the original sources and is still a key reference. But the online Clemson bulletin is probably just as good for an all-round summary of the technology. If you need the valueable agriculture experiment station articles from Carl Whitcomb's nursery research days at Oklahoma State University, dealing with solar hot water panels that fueled root-zone heating beds in greenhouses, contact me directly. Steve Diver http://www.attra.ncat.org
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