Northeast Gardening: Show us your Bloomers #2, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Candyce, We read lots of books all from the late 70's and then we hired an architect who was an old childhood Nantucket summer friend of DH who designed the house. He was totally into our wish to have a passive solar house so he ran all the numbers and put together a really good plan. Unfortunately all those great books were lost due to water damage a few years ago, but I know there are some great books out there. I just started to look for one that I had and came across this site which seems very good. http://www.azsolarcenter.com/technology/pas-2.html
I would be curious to know about using the straw bale and stucco technique to build an attached lean-to type GH on the south side of an existing home as I think that would be very economical and could be built by any energetic homeowner.

My stream is nearly done. But lots of tweaking to do and we need to foam the falls. But I wanted to take it for a test flow first. It seems to work great. I want to order some underwater lights too. I need 5 more big flat rocks to cover the spillway. Then I need to finish the fall clean up and plant a zillion bulbs. DH will help with his trusty electric auger.

We can't get the big cedars straighten up by ourselves, so we called for help with a crew and a little bobcat. Here is a bad picture of the stream, but I was too tired to go back downstairs with the camera once I called it quits for the day. I will take down the limb in the picture that blocks the view of the stream from a second floor window very soon, but after the bulbs get planted. I will cover the spillway with those big stones that I will get tomorrow.

There is alway "tomorrow" and "wait next year" when it comes to gardening. Speaking of envy, grampapa, what about that rose garden and pool that I lurk over with total envy that your DH gave to you last spring. Patti