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Self-watering capillary planters

This water-saving ‘ready-made garden’ design is popular among urban gardeners here in Denmark: it’s comprised of a simple styrofoam planter, and a 40L soil bag.

Holes are cut in the top and bottom of the soil bag, and soil is pushed into three pillars that reach down into a water reservoir. The reservoir is filled with water and fertiliser through a channel on the side of the planter; capillary action (and eventually, plant roots) draw the water up.

The rate of evaporation is much lower with bottom-watered plants, and the styrofoam also keeps the water cool. The reservoir can hold a week or more of water.

A popular DIY version involves using plastic tubs, creating a reservoir underneath with bottles, or a permeable barrier.

Self Irrigating Planters Made Easy

I’m using a plant to catch a leak in the ceiling. “No such thing as waste in a permaculture system,” right?

Today I divided up the hardy kiwis I had layered in the fall.

I made four new 1 gallon kiwi plants.

Mushrooms aren’t just for psychedelic trips, they can clean the planet too

Whether you love Funghi Trifolati or you are utterly grossed out by the mould on brie cheese: mushrooms are extremely important in many ways, like saving our planet from drowning in plastic waste.

~ the pondering muse🌙

Did you know you can grow mushrooms to eat by feeding them plastic? Or that mushrooms evolved this capability themselves? It’s true, plastic eating fungi has been found in landfills in Pakistan and it’s so prolific that it can break down polyester polyurethane in a matter of weeks.  Mushrooms are great at bioremediation, so good at it fact, that they can suck radiation and heavy metals from the soil, eat plastic, petroleum, and remove CO2.  

The mini farm designed to grow these amazing plastic eating fungi is called the “Fungi Mutarium” and it allows for the cultivation of Schizophyllum commune and Pleurotus ostreatus. The steps to degrade the plastic are simple and can be found below:

- UV sterilize the materials and chambers.

- Place the plastic into a “growth sphere” an egg shaped pod of agar agar.

- Add diluted mycelium culture to the “growth spheres” within the incubator.

It’s simple isn’t it? And the end product resembles an edible food bowl or cup that you can put salad in. Research is still being done to make sure it’s 100% safe to consume and no doubt free of micro-plastic residue, but even if this doesn’t get the green light for edibility, it would be a great way to process plastics at home with our current recycling issues here in the U.S. 

You can read more here.

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Humans delayed the onset of the Sahara desert by 500 years

Humans did not accelerate the decline of the ‘Green Sahara’ and may have managed to hold back the onset of the Sahara desert by around 500 years, according to new research led by UCL.

The study by a team of geographers and archaeologists from UCL and King’s College London, published in Nature Communications, suggests that early pastoralists in North Africa combined detailed knowledge of the environment with newly domesticated species to deal with the long-term drying trend.

It is thought that early pastoralists in North Africa developed intricate ways to efficiently manage sparse vegetation and relatively dry and low fertility soils.

Dr. Chris Brierley (UCL Geography), lead author, said: “The possibility that humans could have had a stabilizing influence on the environment has significant implications. We contest the common narrative that past human-environment interactions must always be one of over-exploitation and degradation. Read more.

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DANDELION JELLY! !! It tastes like honey! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 been a busy bee last few days harvesting flowers, plucking petals, extracting nectar, straining and canning this delicious jelly! Very Tideaous work but it’s worth it!

3 cups dandelion tea (made from 4 cups of petals in boiled water overnight ) 4 cups of sugar 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice 6 tbsp of regular ball fruit pectin Water bath can for 10 minutes Makes 6 - ½ pints

4/20/16