Northeast Gardening: Garden photos of '09.....#6, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
drumlin, On any sunny day in the winter it could be in the 80's, but on a gray cold day outside it will be in the 50's. At night it drops down to the low 40's when it is really cold outside. We have only lost a couple of plants due to too much cold over the years, but then we don't try to grow anything that can't take near freezing temps. It is a joy, and our main daytime heat for the house. So we don't heat it, it heats us. The only supplemental heat it gets is from the waste heat created by the wood stove metal chimney which we diverted from the stove in the family room on the other side of the wall back into the GH before it goes up the chimney. You can see it in the Jan. photo behind the door into the family room. It is our own waste heat reduction system. We empty almost everything out of it for the summer and fall. I dread that chore. But I love my GH. Dogs do too. Patti