[Cob] Late season cobbing (The experimental greenhouse)

[Dulane]

I have a 4 in layer of cob that froze in my loo. I wouldn't risk it. My
layer in the loo isn't life threatening, but you sure don't want any more of
this than you may already be dealing with. With a good lime wash, that area
is healed, but until it was, you could scrape it away with no effort. The
cob becomes sponge-like if frozen. Not a good practice. I think it would be
better to start with a good tarp system in the spring (maybe April) and then
cob like hell. 

-----Original Message-----
From: coblist-bounces at deatech.com [mailto:coblist-bounces at deatech.com] On
Behalf Of Henry Raduazo
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:25 PM
To: Cob List
Subject: Re: [Cob] Late season cobbing (The experimental greenhouse)

	I was wondering if anyone has ever tried cobbing into the early  
winter. I am south of Washington, DC. So far I have had no killing  
frost, but it could come any day now. I would like to do a couple  
days more work on my experimental greenhouse, The north and west  
walls are being made from rototiller wood chip cob. Since I am mixing  
with a tiller I could probably continue working till the ground  
freezes, but I know that at some point the daily freezing and thawing  
cycles will prevent my cob from hardening.  I don't know when that  
point is.
	 After the first frost we will probably have a week or two of good  
drying weather before we start getting hard freezes, and even then we  
will not get anything that will freeze deeper than a few inches till  
mid to late December.
	I need to know how far I can push winter cobbing. It would be really

nice to have a partially useable structure next spring.

Ed

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