Beautifully designed seasonal fruit, vegetable and herb posters.
Sourced from thesweettooth.com
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Recycle: Make a Bag from a T-Shirt
It appears to be pretty easy to make a bag. Rather than providing free advertising for supermarkets, how about a recycled tie-dyed bag?
How Easy it is to Grow a Pineapple!
Pineapple plants are ridiculously easy to grow. In fact, many gardeners say that it's difficult to fail! The plant can grow indoors, and is quite pleasing to the eye without fruiting. However, if it's the fruit you want to gain from the plant it will need plenty of sunlight.
Cut the top off any pineapple you buy from a fruit store and trim off the fleshy part on the bottom. Stand it in a jar of water covering the bottom to allow the root to strike. Once you see roots starting to form, plant it in a pot or in the garden. I've even had success in leaving out the jar & water step. It takes about 12 - 18 months to harvest a fully formed fruit.
When the fruiterer asks you if you need the top of the pineapple cut off, now you know why... it's a free pineapple plant for them!
Cut the top off any pineapple you buy from a fruit store and trim off the fleshy part on the bottom. Stand it in a jar of water covering the bottom to allow the root to strike. Once you see roots starting to form, plant it in a pot or in the garden. I've even had success in leaving out the jar & water step. It takes about 12 - 18 months to harvest a fully formed fruit.
When the fruiterer asks you if you need the top of the pineapple cut off, now you know why... it's a free pineapple plant for them!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Olla Watering - Ancient Drip Irrigation
The Olla (pronounced (Oy-ya) irrigation system is an ancient practice, and very simple in concept. Ollas are made of unglazed terracotta and filled with water, which seeps through the walls.The olla is buried in the ground next to the roots of the plant to be irrigated, with the neck of the olla extending above the soil. The Ollas efficiency is owed to practically no water loss due to evaporation or run-off.
This system can be applied to almost any type of garden, although plants with woody root systems may damage the pot. If you're quite adept at the clay wheel, they seem to be a pretty basic project, or perhaps there's a terracotta pot store near you where you can either order one or fashion one out of something they sell.
Here's a short video about the olla:
Images sourced from Pasadena Housewife
Recycle: Mini-Greenhouse from CD Covers
This mini greenhouse is perfect for winter conditions, or protection from pests for the seedling to truly establish itself. Beans would also benefit from such a structure as it's advised not to water the seed until their sprouts show themselves above the soil, and if you have other plants in the same bed that require watering, this handy construction saves you the timely hassle of precision watering.
sourced from: Recycled Crafts
Promises of Urban Agriculture - An Excerpt
An excerpt from the upcoming feature-length documentary: Promises of Urban Agriculture, directed by Joseph Redwood-Martinez...
Jay Rosenberg speaks about Hayes Valley Farm demonstrating urban agriculture as a strategy for interim land use in San Francisco. He says "this isn't a place of food production. It's a community centre".
"If it's not fun - it's not sustainable."
Jay Rosenberg speaks about Hayes Valley Farm demonstrating urban agriculture as a strategy for interim land use in San Francisco. He says "this isn't a place of food production. It's a community centre".
"If it's not fun - it's not sustainable."
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