Build a Greenhouse HEATER that Lasts 10-15 DAYS!

🌿 Save $3,000–$5,000 a Year with My Complete Appalachian Home Methods I teach at: https://eulahatfield.com/ A tub of vegetable shortening, a few candle wicks and a stack of clay flower pots. That's the greenhouse heater everyone is building this fall. I built one too, and then I did the arithmetic: the whole tub gives off about as much heat as a small space heater does in nine hours. My grandmother Martha never burned a candle to keep her plants alive. She started her sweet potato slips every March in a pit of barn manure under two old window sashes, and the dirt was warm as bread with snow on the ground. Today I show you how to build the heater that really does last 10 to 15 days, with no flame, no cord and no tank. What is in this video: 🌿 The Flower Pot Heater, Honestly — what a tub of shortening can and cannot heat, why the clay pots add no heat of their own, and where that little heater is still worth using 🌿 The Warm Heap — how to build a self-heating pile along the north wall that holds 130 to 160 degrees at its core, the exact mix of dry and wet, and the size it must reach before it will heat at all 🌿 The Day-Ten Turn — why your heap cools around day ten or twelve, and the half hour of work that gives you a second run of heat out of the very same pile 🌿 The Heat Battery and Night Cover — how jugs of water and an old bedsheet turn a few degrees of warmth into a night your greens come through 🌿 Martha's Hotbed — how to bury the heat under your seed flats so seeds come up fast in late winter, with no electric heat mat ⚠️ Honest limits on all of it — a heap warms the space around it, it is not a furnace, and it will not carry tomatoes and peppers through a week of single digits. Gloves and clean hands with manure, a damp heap so it never smolders, fresh air if ammonia builds up, and why an unvented propane or kerosene heater does not belong in a closed greenhouse. The honest word, not skipped. 💰 What it costs — leaves from your own yard, manure a stable will give you for the hauling, coffee grounds from the diner, and a fifteen-dollar compost thermometer. Compare that with about three dollars a night to run a space heater, close to four hundred dollars by spring, to protect maybe forty dollars of plants. No company can patent a wild plant, and no company can patent the leaves falling in your own yard. Tell me in the comments: what could you gather within a mile of your house, and how cold does your worst winter night get? I read every single one. Subscribe so you do not miss it #NaturalRemedies #HomeRemedies #RuralLiving #FrugalLiving #Homesteading #SelfSufficiency #AppalachianLiving #OldWaysBetterWays