Greenhouse project planning

Been a busy day in the greenhouse. Moved in the two rain barrels which will hopefully help moderate temperatures a bit, though I wasn’t able to get them in during the hottest time of the day so they could warm up today. I realized my greenhouse was far enough downhill from my house that I could transfer rain water from my existing rain barrels just by siphoning, so I was able to fill them even though I haven’t hooked them into the greenhouse downspouts yet.

Also used up one more 10oz silicone tube, still only about halfway done with the sealing up, though.

And of course, I made the permanent home for my raspberry pi temperature monitor:

It was powered off for a few hours, but I had the doors open and it was quite pleasant. The current high temperature was from sitting in the sun this afternoon right before I turned it off, I’m pretty sure it never actually got above ~90° today:

I think I’m done for the day, but tonight I’m going to try the setting on the heater where it only turns on when it hits 38°, to see how long it takes to get that low without heat and whether the heater can successfully push it back warmer from that point. I don’t think it will be quite as cold as last night but maybe close.

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