General Discussion & Chat: She's about to...57, Spring is just around the corner!, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
I figure I can get them good and going, transfer to bigger cups and keep them in the light of one of the basement windows a few hours a day until they harden off. I just came up from that freezer room and found a huge crumble in the foundation by the window behind a sheet I had put up about ten years ago to cover the rust stains from a previous leak. I can not believe how much work needs to be done to the foundation of this house. We spent our upstairs re-do money the first year we lived here on the first two walls down there. Anyway, there is enough cold air coming in that after they get bigger, I just put them up there and they harden off, get bigger and then I move them to the garden. That is how I got so many tomato plants early last year, then I also scattered seeds and had more tomatoes going. I had tomatoes all the way till November here. I shoved an old moving pad into the hole under the easement of the house foundation in that area, so that should help a bit until convince Joe that we definitely are falling in so to speak, on the south and west side of the house. The east and north and part of the south wall have I-beams up from where we first found the damage 19 years ago which resulted in an unfinished basement. Had we known our finished basement had cracks in the walls that were covered up with two by fours, cement nails , paneling and crowned out at the top and bottom, we would not have bought this house.
He wants it paid off before we fix it up, and I don't think the next two years are going to get us there as far as the soundness. I am very worried we will wake up to a rumbling sliding cave in one of these mornings. God help Us. I keep praying he will see my point. Anyway, since he doesn't care about fixing the basement up, I just use it for the gardens in the winter. This is a picture from last spring of the window well on that wall out back. I guess we will be arguing about this soon. You can't see any cracks, because the soil level is actually up to the bottom of the cedar that covers the house.