OFF GRID LIVING - BUNKIE LOG CABIN - HERB GARDEN RAISED BED from FOREST LOGS & Plum Trees - Ep. 131
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Date: 2022-06-23
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Kurt
In one of your episodes, cutting logs landed in the wetland near you veggie beds, you spotted naturally growing water cress. Virgin water cress (curled pepper grass) is a great addition to a salad or freshly clipped garnish on a sandwich or pizza. I grow it indoors in Calgary during early spring and late autumn in a sunny western window overhung by a balcony with at most 4 hours of direct sunlight. I grow it hydroponically on just wetted and misted cotton (pharmacy available cotton balls elongated to thrice their original length, just one layer of parallel elongated balls) on a low-lipped foam tray (a cleaned and reused meat foam tray. You generously drizzle the seeds onto the wet cotton (about 3mm or 1/8- spacing, and mist or water them daily. They will germinate in two to three days and fill your yurt or log house with a pleasant and noticeable fragrance. They will thereafter be harvestable within about seven days when about 1- above the cotton level with individual green triplet leaves, lens-shaped and about 1/8- long. You harvest them from the tray by scissor-cutting of the stems near the cotton surface and drizzling the cuttings onto your salad, sandwich or baked pizza. You may be able to autumn harvest your own seeds from the wild water cress growing in your wetlands instead of buying a few gram seed packages if available in local nurseries. I on-line order several 25 gram packages, at a tenth of the per gram price in nurseries, every late winter, and usually go through about 100 grams a year. Cheers from Kurt
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In one of your episodes, cutting logs landed in the wetland near you veggie beds, you spotted naturally growing water cress. Virgin water cress (curled pepper grass) is a great addition to a salad or freshly clipped garnish on a sandwich or pizza. I grow it indoors in Calgary during early spring and late autumn in a sunny western window overhung by a balcony with at most 4 hours of direct sunlight. I grow it hydroponically on just wetted and misted cotton (pharmacy available cotton balls elongated to thrice their original length, just one layer of parallel elongated balls) on a low-lipped foam tray (a cleaned and reused meat foam tray. You generously drizzle the seeds onto the wet cotton (about 3mm or 1/8- spacing, and mist or water them daily. They will germinate in two to three days and fill your yurt or log house with a pleasant and noticeable fragrance. They will thereafter be harvestable within about seven days when about 1- above the cotton level with individual green triplet leaves, lens-shaped and about 1/8- long. You harvest them from the tray by scissor-cutting of the stems near the cotton surface and drizzling the cuttings onto your salad, sandwich or baked pizza. You may be able to autumn harvest your own seeds from the wild water cress growing in your wetlands instead of buying a few gram seed packages if available in local nurseries. I on-line order several 25 gram packages, at a tenth of the per gram price in nurseries, every late winter, and usually go through about 100 grams a year. Cheers from Kurt
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Kurt
Comment specific to this ep. 131: boiled linseed oil is best for outdoor coating protection. I successfully used it on the cedar siding of my AB garage back in 1979, a coat every year for three years that permanently prevented it from going grey for another seven years until we sold it and bought another house. Non-boiled linseed oil is okay for indoor coatings. The alternatives for indoor and outdoor coatings are clear tung oil (Behr brand, or Watco Danish Oil brand) or Thompsons Water Seal. They are less viscous fluid coatings and easier to brush on, and soak deeper into the wood than linseed oil. I've had good outdoor protection results with Thompsons Water Seal on our boardwalk, which kept shedding the water for five years before needing another coat. You acquire a tray and medium depth roller (with an extension rod) for latex paint - and roll it on by the 100 sq ft every five minutes. Cheers from Kurt
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Comment specific to this ep. 131: boiled linseed oil is best for outdoor coating protection. I successfully used it on the cedar siding of my AB garage back in 1979, a coat every year for three years that permanently prevented it from going grey for another seven years until we sold it and bought another house. Non-boiled linseed oil is okay for indoor coatings. The alternatives for indoor and outdoor coatings are clear tung oil (Behr brand, or Watco Danish Oil brand) or Thompsons Water Seal. They are less viscous fluid coatings and easier to brush on, and soak deeper into the wood than linseed oil. I've had good outdoor protection results with Thompsons Water Seal on our boardwalk, which kept shedding the water for five years before needing another coat. You acquire a tray and medium depth roller (with an extension rod) for latex paint - and roll it on by the 100 sq ft every five minutes. Cheers from Kurt
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GUY
You know when I watch you guys working together doing things and harm me it's so cool to see this I showed all my friends I think you guys are the greatest you truly have true love that's for sure I'm telling you could tell I'm always right when I say that people are meant to be together you and him are meant to be together and that place is so cool I like that place you got there it's like you're in heaven so beautiful what you've done to it how many keep watching as you guys progress and get bigger Everything about watch all the way through my wife died April 9th and when I watch your guys that reminds me of me and her we were just like you guys Watching you guys work together and doing things together reminds me of me and her that's makes me happy saying that I see that same type of love that you guys got is what we had for 36 years
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You know when I watch you guys working together doing things and harm me it's so cool to see this I showed all my friends I think you guys are the greatest you truly have true love that's for sure I'm telling you could tell I'm always right when I say that people are meant to be together you and him are meant to be together and that place is so cool I like that place you got there it's like you're in heaven so beautiful what you've done to it how many keep watching as you guys progress and get bigger Everything about watch all the way through my wife died April 9th and when I watch your guys that reminds me of me and her we were just like you guys Watching you guys work together and doing things together reminds me of me and her that's makes me happy saying that I see that same type of love that you guys got is what we had for 36 years
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Kurt
Comment specific to ep. 131. RE: copper sheeting not always keeping the slugs from crawling into veggie beds. Give chimney soot a trial in one bed. Staple or nail split bamboo canes (diameter of a rain gutter trough) on the top inside of the bed planks. Fill the half canes with chimney soot (or char chips from a burned spruce log) and observe whether the slugs tend to cross the soot or char barrier. Worked in my mothers garden when drizzling soot rows on the ground around the cabbage pad area.
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Comment specific to ep. 131. RE: copper sheeting not always keeping the slugs from crawling into veggie beds. Give chimney soot a trial in one bed. Staple or nail split bamboo canes (diameter of a rain gutter trough) on the top inside of the bed planks. Fill the half canes with chimney soot (or char chips from a burned spruce log) and observe whether the slugs tend to cross the soot or char barrier. Worked in my mothers garden when drizzling soot rows on the ground around the cabbage pad area.
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Valadin
For the SLUGS:
What you need is electricity flowing through them, a 9V battery is usually enough to deter them, the best and cheapest way is to use -electric fence tape- connect each phase(wire in the tape) in an alternating fashion to plus and minus of your electric source, if you want to minimize electricity loss stick the electric fence tape on rubber tape/old halved bicycle tube and that onto the raised bed sides.
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For the SLUGS:
What you need is electricity flowing through them, a 9V battery is usually enough to deter them, the best and cheapest way is to use -electric fence tape- connect each phase(wire in the tape) in an alternating fashion to plus and minus of your electric source, if you want to minimize electricity loss stick the electric fence tape on rubber tape/old halved bicycle tube and that onto the raised bed sides.
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dizzywizzy
I would love to be steward of your property and it would be a real honour but I just don-t think I could ever afford it and by the time I saved that much money you will probably have found someone better than me anyway.
I-m happy to watch - you guys deserve your dreams to come true. Your both so perfect.
Love you guys.
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I would love to be steward of your property and it would be a real honour but I just don-t think I could ever afford it and by the time I saved that much money you will probably have found someone better than me anyway.
I-m happy to watch - you guys deserve your dreams to come true. Your both so perfect.
Love you guys.
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GUY
Watching this show is literally saving my life David my life You guys are helping me out so much I can watch you guys and still feel that love that I've had for thanks to you guys I hope you have a fine trip like we did together was one hell of a ride I joyed every better day
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Watching this show is literally saving my life David my life You guys are helping me out so much I can watch you guys and still feel that love that I've had for thanks to you guys I hope you have a fine trip like we did together was one hell of a ride I joyed every better day
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Sol
Slugs don't like to crawl on ashes. You can put some on the top of the beds.
You mean well but dogs are carnivores. We can't force our beliefs into the natural world. As we don't force a cow to eat meat. Well, they did. and look what happened.
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Slugs don't like to crawl on ashes. You can put some on the top of the beds.
You mean well but dogs are carnivores. We can't force our beliefs into the natural world. As we don't force a cow to eat meat. Well, they did. and look what happened.
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jake_nicolle
I can't believe they chose to build on top of an old log and brush dump. The most unstable ground out there, and probably 10x harder to work in. Would have been better to clear cut a building site and be working on hard stable ground.
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I can't believe they chose to build on top of an old log and brush dump. The most unstable ground out there, and probably 10x harder to work in. Would have been better to clear cut a building site and be working on hard stable ground.
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