I got the idea of making compost tea from the Grow House as well as the book Gardening When it Counts. It is also my first experiment with solar energy. The solar panel pictured above hooks up to a tiny little air pump. This system is supposed to be used in backyard ponds. I bought it [...]
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Compost tea and solar panel
Posted: April 19, 2011 in backyard, garden, garden, Phoenix, waterTags: apocalyptic gardening, compost tea, garden, solar
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Weekend update: Gardening for hard times
Posted: April 17, 2011 in backyard, garden, garden, medicinal, tomatilloTags: post-apocalypse gardening
I am trying an experiment, based on what I think I read in Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon. I filled bottles with compost tea and put the bottle upside down “above” the plants. The tomatillo seems to be doing the best. The rest of the plants still look a [...]
Book review for “Gardening when it counts”
Posted: April 8, 2011 in arizona, backyard, books, fallout library, food, garden, gardenI been reading Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon and frankly it just overwhelms me. After reading the watering section I am not sure if he is telling me to water more or water less. I suppose one needs a little bit of a mathematical mind to follow his recommendations, maybe [...]
Update on the Garden- Low yields and over-watered
Posted: March 29, 2011 in backyard, garden, garden, tomatillo, waterTags: 2012, apocalyptic gardening, arizona desert, post-apocalypse gardening
Before leaving for 9 days I asked my neighbor to water my garden once while I was gone. I can tell from the exact position where I left the hose that he did not. Despite that everything (except the gopher attacked agave) looks good. In fact, I am glad the garden did not get any [...]
4 days ago I salted oranges. Today, as instructed, I tried them. I used two with some Mikes Hard Lemonade and they were delicious. Best way to cure scurvy.
Now we are cooking without gas! – weekend plans
Posted: January 28, 2011 in animals, animals, animals, backyard, food, garden, garden, gophers, Health, meat, power, protein, research, solar, survivalTags: cook, cooking, solar, weekend, weekend plans
Despite the fact I have yet to even coming close to catching a gopher, much less killing, skinning, cooking and eating one, at some point I am going to have to think about cooking. If I lived in the Appalachian’ foothills of my youth then wood would not be a problem. But here in Phoenix [...]
Weekend Wrap Up- Desert Botanical Garden and The Grow House
Posted: January 11, 2011 in animals, animals, backyard, food, garden, garden, gophers, meat, researchTags: arizona desert, arizona desert botanical garden, food, garden, research, weekend
This weekend was mostly a research weekend. First, I re-visited the Arizona Desert Botanical Garden and snapped off some more pictures of plants that I can use for food. I also spent a couple of hours staring at the place I plan to have my garden, and trying to figure out how I would approach [...]
