Not growing much this year and what I am growing tend to be low maintenance like root crops. Might grow a cherry tomato plant or two and some peppers, Shishito and Korean Red. The high tunnel is still just a poly film roof, no ends, no sides. Got a ton of work to do to…
Running out of time in 2026 to get things done, namely the high tunnel. I’m waiting on a good cool down to do some things. We had huge rains a couple of months ago. The good news? It washed away all the ticks. The bad news, it made ten times as many seed ticks hatch….
So rare most of the year here in the Ozarks where cool and warm fronts battle it out to see who’ll win. I always have something that would be best done without 20-40 mph gusts. Today’s low wind task is to lay black plastic sheeting down where I want to kill off the grass for…
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I think I could do better but I’m also not the one that came up with it so it would only be improving it and I do have 50 years experience as a fabricator so …
On CBW modules, a Timer can be set on Scheduled Tasks and then an Trigger of When Timer 1 Expires set in Conditional Tasks. I did 1) Set Timer 1 to 20 seconds at 6am 2) When Timer 1 expires – turn off LEDs They turned off at 6:00:20 Not a very useful scenario but…
This was a much longer post with lots of pics on another site I used to have. I need to update this one. Anyway, I built a smoker out of three water heaters and it works pretty good. Water heater tanks are pretty thin so a good breeze will cool it down so I put…
Before I found out about the CBW controllers, I programmed a Unitronics V120 industrial PLC to be an irrigation controller but a very manual controller. Power it up and enter how many minutes you want the pump relay on for and hit Run. When it ends, hit Run and it will run for that same…
Found this on an electrical discussion forum and later in an installation manual for a linear actuator which is what I’ll be using to open and close gable vents and possibly sides of the tunnel. The set up uses two SPDT relays to reverse polarity on a DC motor so it can spin in either…
Sowed some beans and melons and got really poor germination. Seeds were for 2022 which is a little old but not that old. Checked my soil temps yesterday. At 6am, 2 inches down, 77 degrees. At 3pm, 2 inches down in bare soil, 98 degrees. In the shade of tomato plants and under a pile…
