This channel is for everyone interested in gardening, growing your own organic food and basically having as small a footprint on our planet as possible. Tips and tricks that I have learned and also learning from our neighbours and viewers. I am based in the Canary Islands so the opportunity to pick up a bit of Spanish is possible as well. How to grow the food you love and nourish the soil beneath your feet at the same time! Good Food and Good Times!
Those covers are like tents; they fall apart after 6 mths exposed to the sun and other elements. I used that thick black plastic tarp they sell to cover things with which I bound around the tanks with heavy-duty masking tape. Did the trick. Also connected three 1000 litre tanks mentioned in the video in series from one roof gutter and still had overflow. You might be surprised by how much rain you can harvest!
Nice work Dono! I think there are varying qualities of covers on the market. Mine are holding up pretty well and are exposed to high winds for a few months a year and intense sun all year. I'll definitely give the tarp option a try when the time comes. Sounds like a great idea. I've even seen opaque tanks and people painting their tanks black.
Thank you for this video! I was just gifted some Nopales and was researching on the best way to propagate them. I will definitely be trying the methods you provided in this video.
Hi Brian, I have a question. I want to buy an IBC tank, connect a 16 mm hose and use this Aqualin water timer. What should be the minimum height difference between the IBC tank and the outflow opening of the hose?
Great question Gerard. I have mine about 3 metres up a hill. That helps quite a bit but it's still a little less pressure than I would like. The higher the better if your property allow it. If you have more than one IBC you could stack them. I've included a link I found about stacking them which includes some other useful info. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching and commenting. Garden on! www.ibctanks.com/knowledge-base/can-you-stack-full-ibc-tanks#:~:text=Most%20IBCs%20are%20engineered%20to,when%20weight%20bearing%20with%20cargo.
@@BriansGreenGarden Thank you for your very quick answer. But we live in the Netherlands and there are no hills or mountains here... So I have no more options than, for example, a stack of tiles 50-60-70 cm high. Isn't that enough to keep the water flowing?
Every little bit helps. You could look into a water pressure pump perhaps. I've never used one but I think they exist. If you don6have electricity in your garden you might think about solar powered. Sorry I don't have details. Just planting the seed as they say.😀👍🪴
and 6 months later the sun/wind turns them into shredded trash. i got 1 for each of my 6 totes and none of them lasted longer than 6 months - colorado springs - not that cold, not that hot. those covers are trash.
Yes. They are not all created equally. Mine are still hanging in there. I secured them a bit to reduce the movement from the wind. I've seen people paint them black. The proper paint is important because I've also seen them peel. Not pretty. Have you looked into copper sulphate? Inhear that could help.
Thanks Brian. Great job. Good info. God bless. I’ve had that hoe for many years. Unfortunately I haven’t taken the best of care. Where did you get your new handle?
I got that handle at a hardware store here in the Canary Islands. I try to take care of my tools. They last much longer that way. I don't like spending too much on tools, but I've learnt that "Cheap is Expensive " in the long run. Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙂👍 Garden on!
Keep on trying! Soil prep is important too. They need nice, fluffy, organic material rich soil with very few rocks to really get going! Don't stop believing! Thanks for watching and commenting.
I just read an article that said to NOT compost orange and lemon peels because they are too acidic. I eat more citrus fruits than thought humanly possible. At my last doctor’s visit I told him I average 15 pounds of citrus a week. I do my part to keep California and Florida citrus growers in business! 😊 I just got my composting bins delivered (pallet boxes which were going to the dump) and plan to begin composting my neighbors’ tree leaves and grass clippings that they conveniently bag and place on the curb for city removal. I intend to add my citrus peels. Do I need to be concerned about how many I add? Great video! Am going to check out the others.
@merk9569 Thanks merk. I didn't want to add the peels to my worm bin because too much isn't great for the worms. Not the biggest fans. They will eat some though. So that's why I started composting them. Works well for me. You could definitely add too many. Be sure to add them with a carbon source. Experiment. Let me know how it goes. Thanks for watching and commenting. Garden on!
You could give that a try. The idea behind the wire is to increase oxygen though. Experimenting is always a good idea. Thanks for watching and commenting D.I.Y.G.
Hi honeybadger! I got it in a container from the nursery but you can see in the video that I transplanted it directly into the ground with lots of compost, placed a drip irrigation ring around it and topped it off with some mulching. I love papaya!Thanks for watching and commenting.
I put a fistful of my old compost in the mix I add every week with a bunch old dry leaves just to get the microbial activity going sooner. What you see there is compost. I will sieve it soon and start a new pile. Black gold! You should start. Warning though...addictive. Great vice to have though. Thanks for watching and commenting. Garden on!
Don´t give up Rene! Here´s a "cheat" short I did. It was great to increase the microbial population. Do you have a compost thermometre? They are great to really keep tabs on your pile. Thanks for watching and commenting. Good luck and garden on! ru-vid.comS8av_xCiW9Y?si=6d5dw1w-pys7TDRv If the link doesn´t work just look for ¨Turn up the heat on your compost¨short on my channel page.
This might be a stupid question, but how do you harvest the compost out of the bin once it is ready, as in do you have to empty the whole bin all at once? And how often do you do it?
Not a stupid question Donny. I harvest it once a year. I sift it and return the bigger pieces to the bin to start the next one. I made a sifter that you can see in minute 6:10 in my Bokashi video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S_I452EQlBI.htmlsi=lwWdrY6EDEWng9zm You don´t have to empty the whole bin all at once but I like to because I use it all to dress the beds once a year. You are the boss of your own compost pile. Thanks for watching and commenting. Garden on!
I love green papaya salad too! With or without fish sauce? Thank goodness ripe papaya doesn't smell like that to me!😅 Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Oh that's too bad. How cold does it get? If it's just frost you are dealing with, check out this video I found for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y8zADG9QFTc.htmlsi=o5EEdcTyacInftt1 If the link doesn't work, the video title is "Growing Papaya Fruit Trees in Cold Climate" on RU-vid of course.
A colonizer displacing the indigenous and local population with his money. increasing the prices of the land to the point where the locals become displaced out of their own land and not being able to live in their own country. This is the reason why we have illegal immigration and poverty in Latin America.
Woah two years is some incredible growth rate! If I had known this I would have gotten a papaya tree instead of an orange one 😅 also you are the first english speaking person that a I see eating cuajada! I love it so much❤
I sure am lucky to have been introduced to it! I love it. Kitchen staple. Goes really well with a touch of Maple syrup. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂 👍😎
"¡Échale tierrita a la papa!", as you said, invaluable help and knowledge from the professor... and of course from you, see you in class, looking forward to hear more anecdotes.
