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With rigid foiled insulation board, it is rigid enough to be structural. If you get 4' x 8' sheets (also come in 4' x 10'), 6 sheets will give you a 4' w x 4' D x 8' H reflective chamber. Using hot glue gun, you can create different interior setups. I am concerned about health safety with fiberglass. dcarch

Impressive setup! Did you start the strawberries from seeds? Good job! A suggestion for your next setup. Get rigid aluminum foiled insulation board. (4' x 8" x 1/2") for the chamber. Construction is easy. Cut with a knife, and use packing tape to make the box. Very strong. Comes with reflective surface. Handling fiberglass is tricky and ichy. dcarch

Or, here I used a small blower, ready to cook in a few seconds. A hair dryer will work well also. dcarch

Bull S h * t! Speaking of compost, I often wonder why is cow manure better than regular compost and more expensive? A cow eats grass, makes beef. What cannot be used to make beef is dumped. So cow manure is grass without the beef. If you compost grass, it has everything, including the ingredients that makes beef. dcarch

Important: Never use charcoal fire indoors. CO kills silently. I have an outdoor fire pit I use. After I don't need the fire anymore, I empty everything into a metal can with a tight lid. The ember soon extinguishes. The next day, I use a sieve to separate the ash and leftover charcoal. The ash makes a wonder fertilizer for your garden. dcarch

Charcoal can get hot with air blowing. Very hot! hotter than hot. I made this simple furnace to make a few knives. Not only that it melt the steel, it actually melt the cement tiles into glass. It can vaporize your wok and stir fry. :-) dcarch

I will alocate more real estate to my allium tricoccum in my garden. Trying to ramp up spring time harvest. dcarch

I was told that people who follow kosher diet can enjoy fake shrimps, fake lobsters, and fake pork. dcarch

Asparagus Aspiration I decided to post this here, not on the Garden Forum. The very first thing that you can harvest from your garden is probably asparagus. Depends on what zone you are in, I am in z6, it is never early enough. Here is what you can do easy and cheap to push it to at least a month sooner. Cover your plot with a sheet of greenhouse plastic. Let the sun warm up the soil quicker. I have been enjoying fresh pick spears for a couple of weeks now. dcarch SV salmon, fresh asparagus and last winter's kabocha squash.

Yes, and no. :-) Consider using artificial light instead, Set it up once in a way that works for you. Use that for breakfast, lunch and dinner, winter and summer, everyday. Turn the switch on, snap, and you are done picture taking and ready to start eating. Natural light is not available half the year for dinner and breakfast, and everyday it is at a different angle. Unless you work for a food magazine. dcarch

Corel Draw. dcarch

Like DDF said. dcarch

Sanitize all you want. But when you go outside to eat, restaurants and food trucks, travel to different countries, don't count on they sanitize the way you do. dcarch

It seems that I am the only one in the whole world who microwaves cutting boards and UV boards. 1. Wood boards - Depending on size of board and power of MW, less than a minute or you can start a fire. 2. Plastic boards - a wet towel on top and bottom then MW. 3. Wood or plastic, germicidal UV lights for a few minutes, if I have to cook for other people. Interesting that microwave and UV lights are on the two extremes of the electromagnetic wave spectrum. . dcarch

Seems the blade should face the opposite way for a right handed user. dcarch

I don't know if a convection fan for a countertop oven is of much practical use. Convection is to facilitate conduction. In an electric countertop oven most of the heating is done by IR radiation. Convection has no effect on IR. dcarch

Baked trout with crispy skin. dcarch

Depending on your location, it is important to start seeds early indoors for your garden. You can gain a few months advantage in harvesting, especially for late season varieties. I had always used my MH electronic lights for my seed start setup. They work, but they are not ideal. They use a lot of electricity (400 watts x 3), take a lot of room and expensive bulbs need to be replaced. There have been great advances in LED light technologies recently. They are cheap and powerful. I decided to build a few myself for my seed starting setup. LED lights do need to be properly designed. They are current and temperature sensitive or they can be fried in a fraction of a second. The most difficult issue is heat dissipation. They need very good heatsinks. Heatsinks are expensive. I found that it is cheaper to get an aluminum griddle ($16), cut it in half and make two heatsinks. I use two 150 watt COB LED chips ($8 each) for one light and a couple of brushless computer fans I have from my old computers to cool the heatsink. WOW! It’s bright!! I will not need to replace bulbs for many years. I am pleased with the end result. I will have 4 lights for my seedling setup. dcarch side-by-side MH vs. LEDs. LED

Nope. But that may be my next project :-) dcarch

It will be not be much bigger than the 1/2 griddle. I will be making 4 units. One griddle cut in 1/2 to make two. I will be using two griddles. dcarch

No. dcarch

Nope. But you are getting warmer. dcarch

No, no, and no. Hint: It will be electrified. dcarch

Making something for my garden. Would you like to guess what I am making? dcarch

If your lover is a rabbit. dcarch