15 gallons of frost protection
I was waiting in line today
at Tractor Supply with a 50 pound bag of chick feed on
my shoulder when I noticed for the first time how they sell disposable
hand warmers that last 10 hours. That got me to thinking about how much
heat might be captured from something like that with a 5 gallon bucket
covering it?
We don't need that level of
protection tonight, but it might come in handy if a sudden ice age
reared its cold shoulders.
I guess the only way to know
would be to test and measure the temperature, but it might work as a
last ditch effort to save an outdoor plant if it got more than 10
degrees lower than freezing.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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mark, remember those k rations heat packs that is a alwsome idea thats my boy mom roseanell
mark, remember those k rations heat packs that is a alwsome idea thats my boy mom roseanell