I built one of Leander's solar food dehydrators 15 or 20 years ago. It works but slowly, good for certain easy to dry things like thin apple slices but would take a while to do tomato pieces or anything with a lot of moisture. You need a real warm day & low humidity to dry anything in a day. Most items take much longer and you need a succession of good days. But of course I was using the one I had in Maine!
-----Original Message----- From: Rex Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Advice for cold frames On 18 Sep 02, gary elliott wrote: > An Idea I have used for cold frames came from Elliot Coleman's book > "The 4 Season Grower", and it worked quite well for me. Like Eliot, Leandre & Gretchen Poisson are influenced by Scott & Helen Nearing and published by Chelsa Green. Their book "Solar Gardening" has a wealth of advice about growing vegetables with snow on the ground. Brrrr... not my experience! http://www.chelseagreen.com/IndHome/ch1501.htm Has any listee built and used the solar dehydrator developed by Lea? I'm interested in any feedback on its performance. Cheerio... Rex
