Friday, May 11, 2012

plant shuffle...











Built two EarthBox stands....shuffled everything around in the courtyard - trying to envision the jungle.  Yanked another squash off today, 434 grams.  76,78,53,0,B, .96

11 comments:

liteluvr said...

You can dehydrate those squashes!!! Or make solar zucchini bread.

ratgirls said...

What kind of skull is that in the background?

John Wells said...

liteluvr...solar succhini bread is on the list.

hey ratgirls....thought you might notice that. it's a javalina.

Thunter said...

Great job John! I have been following your blog for a few months now. you have inspired me. I to love the desert. I'm from Arizona and i pretty much go hiking for up to 10 hours one day a week .I love the piece and quit the desert gives.With everything your doing there helps me realize my dreams were not to far fetched. I hope you prosper there. Keep up the good work.

Chris Miller said...

Hi, again. lol

mike said...

zukinie relish yum yum

VirginiaMan said...
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VirginiaMan said...

I’m not real familiar with green houses so excuse my question if it’s just stupid. How do you calculate based on plants how much water per day the green house needs to function?. I’m guessing if you fill it up with all kinds of vegetation like the squash and tomato’s, the demand for water becomes perhaps the most important you have. With what I’ve seen if you’re a little late watering the plants show it quickly. This makes the engineering of saving the 90,000 gallons that might flow through the property with short notice a real issue. LGI sells twin 90,000 tanks but they’re pretty expensive. http://www.lgiinc.com/storage_tanks_project.html and then there’s underground systems like the watercache http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwKDVzh1cs. Or do you try to utilize the natural valley and build a second attempt at a bigger engineered damn?

larsyn said...

Hydroponic Veggie's require 1/10 the water to produce that regular field grown veggie's do.

Thunter said...

yes hydroponics use less water but need chemicals .If you utilize Aquaponics then you eliminate the need of chemicals and just use the natural fertilizer the fish give out plus you are growing a good supply of fish as well

Allen Hare said...

Those plant containers look heavy. I bet they were hard to move. I'm trying to envision the jungle in there, also. Looks great so far.