LED light

Here the wires from the Red led strips


Here the center row of 5mm leds are installed. This is a row of yellow leds

Power supply

Here is my power supply. It is a simple full wave unregulated circuit. Its output is 30v DC at 2A.

Led light

Here is the progress of the LED light. I have drilled all of the holes and mounted the Red led PCBs


Here is a close up the the red strips. They are made form scrap FR4 with SMT high output red LEDs mounted with epoxy. They are Daisy chained with buss wire and supplied power with 30 gauge wire. I have to arrange the circuit for a 12/13 arrangement to make them work with the power supply I am building. I then mounted them to the aluminium plate with RTV and screws.

Aluminium for the LED light

Here is the layed out aluminium sheet for the LED light now allI have to do is drill 350 holes in it.

LEDs

I received my BLUE leds for the grow light

Killawatt

In an effort to track and cut down on the electric used I have acquired a kill-a-watt meter. This will be used for the LED grow light project. Hopefully I can design and build a LED grow light that is comparable to the fluorescent bulbs at greatly reduced power consumption.

Seed staring 2009

It is time to start seeds for the 2009 season


Seeds getting planted


Seeds in the green house

Start of 2009 garden

Here is the state of the garden after winter.
The over wintered carrots were dug up with disappointing results. They turned into mush after thawing out.
As you can see there is remnants of last years plants and cages that were not pulled at the end of the year so there will be extra work to do before planting.

Last harvest

This is the last harvest of the year. We getting frost next week so it is time to clean house. Cut remaining kohlrabi. Picked all of the peppers green or not. Picked remaining tomatoes. The only thing left in the garden are the carrots

Last round of tomatoes

Last round of tomatoes. This should just about end the tomato season

Sauerkraut canned

Sauerkraut after canning. We did freeze some as well.
Also I did not learn my lesson about letting Christa take pictures ;-)

Free jars

Free jars my favorite kind. A neighbor down the road put out all of these jars with a free sign on them.
I have not had a chance to go through them yet. Some of them are old and filthy and a few are chipped but there are a lot of good ones and the price was right ;-)

Second round of canning

Tomato sauce


Yellow pear salsa


More salsa

More tomatoes

More tomatoes ready to be picked.

Pickle canning

Pickle canning results first round

Salsa canning results

Salsa canning results