The pond is filled by an artesian spring that flows most of the year. It is about 30 ft. lower than my water tank and about 200+ feet away so I pump the water up to the tank with a 10 GPM 240Vac submersible pump. The garden is between the tank and the pond on a south facing slope. The lower part of the garden starts getting shade by about 3:00 PM so I grow my heat sensitive plants (like lettuce, etc.) near the bottom.JohnnyL wrote:Is the pond filled by rainwater?dlbww wrote:The gravity fed watering system is working better than I expected. Every couple of days I put at least a couple hundred gallons of water on the plants, this is done by simply turning a valve on. I try to keep the 1500 Imp. gallon tank filled (from our pond hidden in the woods) to keep the water pressure where I want it.
Early this morning we hauled two truck loads (about one cord) of split wood from the edge of the field into the wood shed, about 6 more loads and we'll have more than our winter supply in place.
7 cords a winter?! That's a lot of wood. Use a splitter?
Normally we burn between 2 and 3 cords per winter but this winter I am planning on using our Tarm 102,000 BTU wood gasification boiler for domestic hot water and that will require more wood. We brought in one cord of wood this morning, there was already about a cord in the shed, the woodshed will hold 3 1/2 cords and outside the shop under cover I can fit about 1 1/2 cords. I don't use a splitter because I am sensitive to exhaust (I have multiple chemical sensitivity which is why we live where we do, grow organically, etc.), I can split faster by hand and it is a good workout.