Monday, November 12. 2007
Carbon Footprints
Does keeping your cactus collection in a greenhouse in the winter add to your carbon footprint? Plenty Magazine asks the question.
Hmmm.... There seems to be an interesting cycle at work here.
1. Bring you're heat-loving plants indoors and increase the greenhouse gasses to keep them warm through the winter.
2. Global warming makes it warmer outside in the near future.
3. Those desert plants can then soon enough survive outdoors through the whole winter! Those canny plants.
It's with mixed feelings that I reopened my greenhouse -- really my little bit of paradise -- for the winter....
(T)he part that really gives me pause is the large propane tank parked just outside the greenhouse. I use it to keep the evening temperature inside right around 50 degrees... And all that just so I can keep my scented geraniums, tender pond plants, and the ever-increasing cacti and succulent collections alive?
(T)he part that really gives me pause is the large propane tank parked just outside the greenhouse. I use it to keep the evening temperature inside right around 50 degrees... And all that just so I can keep my scented geraniums, tender pond plants, and the ever-increasing cacti and succulent collections alive?
Hmmm.... There seems to be an interesting cycle at work here.
1. Bring you're heat-loving plants indoors and increase the greenhouse gasses to keep them warm through the winter.
2. Global warming makes it warmer outside in the near future.
3. Those desert plants can then soon enough survive outdoors through the whole winter! Those canny plants.
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