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Post by prairiegardens on May 15, 2017 17:08:08 GMT -5
Wow good score!
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Post by steev on May 16, 2017 23:13:18 GMT -5
IMHO, the best benefit of the internet is the facility of connecting those who want to be rid of something with those who can use it.
Freeconomics rule!
I will note that, in my valley, many wells come up sulferous; I am blessed that my well only sometimes is a tad stinky on first Spring activation, and that only for an hour or so; despues: nectar, absolute nectar, straight from our Great Mother's breast.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jun 29, 2017 20:00:14 GMT -5
Ran across a nifty idea, one of those that make you wonder why you never thought of it. People have been making swimming pools with pallets joined together and reinforced held together with tow straps. Put in some pond loaner and you're good to go. Thinking that with a bit of adjustment and a cover that would be a cheap and easy container to capture and hold a meaningful amount of roof runoff.
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Post by steev on Jun 29, 2017 20:44:49 GMT -5
Ingenious. I'll keep that in mind for the farm. Could be a tad unsightly, but if I were much concerned with "oogly", I'd shave, unleashing my masculine beauty upon the world.
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Post by mskrieger on Jun 30, 2017 11:21:14 GMT -5
That's a neat idea. I assume it's only for watering the garden, though? (Pond liner plastic exudate breakdown = yuck for drinking?)
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Post by philagardener on Jun 30, 2017 12:20:42 GMT -5
I had the feeling they wanted to take a swim . . . but maybe I was mistaken!
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Post by steev on Jul 1, 2017 1:10:21 GMT -5
Damn! There was a guy at the dump dumping a ton of brewing waste and me with no way to carry it off: super soil amendment; such a waste.
Last week, there'd been ~half-yard of lime dumped where I get off the freeway, going to the farm; I'll carry the appropriate toolage to take that this week. if it's still there. Waste not; want not.
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Post by philagardener on Jul 1, 2017 5:58:47 GMT -5
Too bad you couldn't hop on that bandwagon. At that brewing scale, they probably do regular batches - might be a recurring opportunity. They might even drop it where you want to avoid tippling fees at the dump.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jul 1, 2017 18:31:34 GMT -5
That's a neat idea. I assume it's only for watering the garden, though? (Pond liner plastic exudate breakdown = yuck for drinking?) They were using it as a swimming pool, pretty big one, too. As for the pond liner for collecting water I believe those are made with some sort of rubber rather than plastic but I could be wrong. They're safe for fish at any rate, some aquaponics people use them in their systems. The "normal" above ground pools I think are plastic. |
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Post by steev on Jul 7, 2017 22:38:34 GMT -5
I think an above-ground fish-pond/swimming-pool has promise, given that it could catch a lot of winter rain-runoff, which would otherwise just go to the water-table (not a bad thing, but of less immediately-productive use; water being a choke-point on my farm, usage-wise, Mediterranean climate and all). I'm not that keen on fish as chow, personally, but that's my problem, not my sweetheart's.
I expect I could keep it topped up enough to use the effluent to good purpose and prevent it going all algaefied during the dry season; I think this has legs. I don't swim much, but I can see floating around in a cool pool, under an umbrella (the sun hasn't seen other than my "farmer's tan" areas the past twenty-some years; no point in "snow-blinding" the unfortunate observer).
Now I'm starting to think of edible plants that I might put in that; I think I just caught a virus!
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 11, 2017 11:14:21 GMT -5
water chestnuts, steev. Crunchy and sweet delicious! |
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Post by steev on Jul 14, 2017 19:57:45 GMT -5
Asians have a number of lovely water-crops I could enjoy messing with; I also enjoy cattails (not the Manx, too small) and watercress.
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Post by prairiegardens on Jul 16, 2017 5:48:50 GMT -5
Have you had success growing watercress. I can get it to sprout but it's never thrived for me and I really like the stuff.
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Post by steev on Jul 16, 2017 19:30:08 GMT -5
Never tried to grow it; I think it likes clean, gently-flowing water; I've only found it in such.
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Post by walnuttr on Aug 5, 2017 16:16:07 GMT -5
watercress grows just fine in fre draining soil / sand / gravel...just keep clean-ish water regularly / each day... over the roots. they hate to dry out & get hot in summer. Autumn sown seed or broken-off shoots grow well. Too hot at home here in summer for a house-herb. Usually cool enough above 600 metres / 2000 feet. Some nitrogen OK, ( not every morning from the zipper irrigator, Steev )
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