African Violets and Gesneriads: Rooting strep the right way... SuCcEsSfUlLy!!!, 1 by Hillbilly_Gran

Hillbilly_Gran wrote:
My gh is actually an addition to our house-- i heat it by using fans to circulate air from our woodstove into the GH--We just enlarged it-- half is a utility room for washer/dryer freezer--when we did the construction the walls were bumped out a little over 2' to accomodate 55gal barrels of water as a passive heat source-this actually has given me a 2' wide bench that is 24' long on one side, 12' on the other. The utility room is roofed with tin and insulated, the Gh fiberglass, Wast wall is solid and insulated south and west walls are 6mil plastic. Last year we lost power after the icestorm for 13 days-- we heated the Gh with buckets of coals from the stove-- stinky-- but I didn't lose a plant. We have a generator now--told DH it wil run mostly at night if necessary to keep my fans going. Yesterday morning-- the temp was 18° when I got up and I overslept so fire mostly gone-- house was in the 53° range and GH was 43°. Last night I used a small electric heater as a supplement and it only got down to 45 in the coldest part-- it was 8° when i got up this morning. Here is a photo of the West side--forgive the construction mess--still working on that.