{"id":422,"date":"2010-04-19T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-04-19T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:34:05","slug":"taking-the-chill-off-in-the-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Chill Off &#8211; In the Greenhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_423\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/trigger.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"size-full wp-image-423\" title=\"A &quot;Line Voltage&quot; Thermostat.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/trigger.png\" alt=\"A &quot;Line Voltage&quot; Thermostat.\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &quot;Line Voltage&quot; Thermostat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally settled on a heating system for the greenhouse. Basically, there is a Line Voltage thermostat that monitors the tempurature inside. When the temp drops below the desired tempurature, the thermostat passes on 120V to the recepticle below. This is where I&#8217;ve plugged in a electric heater, and a small fan. So far, It&#8217;s kept two tomatoes alive during a few frost\/freeze nights.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started to gain confidance in this setup&#8217;s ability to keep my plants alive, and so I keep bringing more and more plants out of the house.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_424\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/heater-n-fan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-424\" title=\"Electric Heater and Fan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/heater-n-fan.png\" alt=\"Electric Heater and Fan\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric Heater and Fan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of funny, but without the fan, the greenhouse won&#8217;t stay warm, it&#8217;s almost as if\u00a0the heater\u00a0only heats the space around itself. Once I added the fan, the tempurature began to rise above 34 F consistently. I&#8217;m not quite out of the woods yet. There could still be a very cold night, that could pierce through the clear plastic and wreak havoc on anything living, so I dare not place all of my &#8220;eggs&#8221; in one basket. For now, I&#8217;m playing it safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally settled on a heating system for the greenhouse. Basically, there is a Line Voltage thermostat that monitors the tempurature inside. When the temp drops below the desired tempurature, the thermostat passes on 120V to the recepticle below. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,61,117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}