Very inspiring. Not only are the gardens great but the community is as well. Even people living in difficult circumstances can come together and create an oasis.
It's cool to see so much shade. It looks really comfortable as you walk us through now. I remember the dry, dusty, rock pile you started with. Total transformation.
Thanks for demonstrating how to make a wicking bed Geoff! 😀 I love all the recent videos you are making in Jordan. I took your online PDC course in 2015 and have recently purchased 80 acres in Arizona. Loving all these dry land videos to inspire me.
You are my guru sir even though I've Been an organic gardener for 51 years! There's always something new you can learn. Thank you so much for all your videos.❤😆 God bless!❤
@ 1:13 I think that is a woman named Ablaba's (spelling?) narrow small property in the back ground with the green plants and trees. She is/has been a student of this property and Teaching Center and they have helped her green up her small piece of land. There is a video of her somewhere, and I remember her giving a tour of her property.
I want to do this in India. I m in Dubai living a stressful life with nothing but work and I am so inspired by you to leave it all and go do it in India. Have no idea how to go about it though so watching and reading all I can Top respect to you! 🙏
Geoff your inspering to me,love the work you do,like the fact that you share your knowledge,and are on the front line,love to shake your hand some day. health to you and familly,thank you.
I would like to see more of what was shown at the beginning of this video (rooftop garden). In Cuba, rooftop patios offer best opportunities for people with limited access to ground space (at least in densely-populated areas in the centre of Santiago de Cuba and other cities). Please share if possible. Jazaq-alajú kairan
Beautiful Geoff! I wonder why you haven't overstacked the system a lot more with pigeon pea. Would help a lot with shading out the place a little more aswell, aside from all that mulch and free peas. Much Love from Portugal, Karsten #EcoTopia.LandArt
Thanks for all you do. We are currently converting our lawns to food production and would like to try out some wicking beds. Have any issues come up where you need to empty and clean the beds or do you just continue to amend and plant, without ever having to empty it?
Hi Johann, Yes, placing nitrogen-fixing legume trees between fruit trees will provide natural fertilization on the root level, as well as through the chop-and-drop of the mulching material.
Is it windy on your site? Wind is a massive problem on my rooftop garden in sydney. It blows your mulch away and damages leafy greens. My favourite rooftop plants are ceylon spinach, eggplant and asparagus. I'll have to try out that brazillian spinach!
If you can't provide a windbreak or raise the edges of pots/beds, try weighing down the mulch with sticks, bricks or stones. A deep mulch will cushion much of the impact of the weights.
@VICtorian071 yep, got warrigal greens too but they dont taste great grown in full sun. Need to move them to a shadier spot so they can grow big green leaves
Ben Schiavi - I don't think Warrigal greens come close to silverbeet in terms of flavour. Try growing regular beetroot for the leaves, it's adapted to windy, coastal conditions and can handle getting it's leaves battered.
soooooo awsome you don't tell everyone to use compost all the way through. I have rough time growing compost in Arizona as it gets up to 116 regulary with 12 percent humidity in the summer rotting roots and killing plants. I have one question though: how does the water pull up through the gravel? I have always seen sand used as cohesion and adheason is better with the smaller particles.
I was thinking of building a wicking bed on my balcony (a lot smaller: 45L), but I was wondering if I could use biochar instead of the pebbles. For two reasons: I want to save weight in case I have to move (it is a rental house), and I thought that I could activate the biochar with compost tea, to give the whole system an extra boost. Would you recommend doing this?
Superbe vidéo ... From France ^_^ I think Your compost is too hot ... 65°C is like fire !!! Direct compost on the floor is better, put your carbage direct contact on soil and under much ... Less loose in fire, less carbonisation and more nutriments direct contact on floor ...
@@@SHANONisRegenerate : Don't afraid fréro et ose tester de nouvelle idées que l'on pratique en France ... We love naturals seeds from compost ... Pathogen ? ... Don"t afraid about any pathogen or new micro-faune on the floor ... Don't afraid if U see mushroom on direct compost on floor ... Vous ressemblez à ces agriculteurs conventionnels qui arrosent leur terres de chimie pour avoir un terrain propre ... interdit d'avoir des champigons, interdit les "mauvaises herbes", interdit de voire une graine pousser après avoir jeter des déchets végétaux directement sur le sol !
@@@DiscoverPermaculture : Natural compost or Artificial Compost, what is the fondamental question ?... Sorry my english is too bad ... Si vous voulez vous faciliter le travail du compost, jetez directement vos végétaux sur le sol, ainsi vous n'aurez plus rien à faire ... Le sol décompose mieux les végétaux que les tas de compost artificiels que nous faisons ... compostage naturel direct sur le sol, on appelle cela en France, le compost à froids .... IMPORTANT : Ne pas découper les végétaux avant de les composter à froid sur le sol ... La forme d'un végétal est une information en soi qui est importante pour le sol et l'esprit du sol ... Le sol sait mieux décomposer les déchets végétaux que les humains avec leur technique de compost artificiel ... Vous perdez tellement de temps avec votre compost, alors que vous devriez passer vos journée à planter des arbres dans le désert et cultiver vos potager ... Je vous aime, donc je vous conseille ....
@@@SHANONisRegenerate : Greeening desert, I Love it ... Allez remplir les déserts avec les déchets végétaux provenant des poubelles des villes ... Direct compost on the floor ... We love seed from compost, We love seed bring by birds ... We don't care about pathogen, Nous aimons les champignons et les moisissures ... Nous aimoins la micro-faunes qui décompose les végétaux sur le sol ...
Which vine is it on 50th second purple vine green leaves name? Is it edible i have that in our home but till now we didn't eat it i think it's just decorative vine
Imran md Ah, he is saying Ceylon Spinach, but the names are interchangeable. And as someone who just finished a PDC and internship at the GTD site, i have ate it several times and its refreshing. It has a plain taste with a mild slimy texture.
I actually see a lot of green spots in the Dead Sea Valley opposite Jericho that resemble the GTD site. For instance this neighborhood looks quite green 31.915678, 35.618341
Hi LLC, try 31.871544, 35.631410. Because there are no street addresses here, it's hard to put a permanent pin on the location in google maps although I have requested it again from Google.
Hi@@VasilyKiryanov, the reliance of heavy irrigation and chemical fertilizers is abundant throughout the region. Water for irrigation purposes remains heavily subsidized, encouraging waste, and the planting of water-intensive crops. What’s worse is that with more than 50 percent of Jordan’s water being used for agriculture, it only produces a small amount of the local food supply. But it won't last that much longer. Jordan is tapping into it's last non-renewable water resource - The Disi project - pumping at full capacity pulling 160 percent more groundwater than nature is able to put in. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
geof maby u can start up gofund me page fore the water pay ment . also i whas wondering if you could build desalt installation with sun power i mean a black garden hose al ready can get water up to 70 grade celcius then closed green house etc,,
I love your work Geoff but I'm a bit shocked by the crudeness of these wicking beds. As someone that people look up to and follow I expected you would've done a much better job here. Let me walk the readers through some mistakes that are made here and how to do things properly. First off it's best to take the 2 minutes that it takes to take the frame apart and cut the frame and container separately and just measure things out. Then put the ends that you cut on the bottom and not let them stick out at the top to prevent people (think of the children!) from hurting themselves. Ideally you'd also cut it inside somewhere to at the very least sweep those thousands of microplastics you just created and dispose of them properly rather than have them float through your garden. Then instead of using gravel as a reservoir you use drainage pipe wrapped in geotextile. First of all this holds much more water, secondly soil can't end up in your reservoir as is possible with the example in the video. But also not entirely unimportant is that most gravel is some sort of limestone and always full of dust and this might have a negative impact on the pH of your water. Then on to the actual wick, for this we are using coarse sand (mixed with raw biochar for even more water holding capacity and also to help keep the water clean if you want to get fancy). This sand is packed in tight to reduce it sinking later on and should be at the very least 1 inch higher than your highest water level two inch is better but also not more than that because water only wicks up a certain distance. If you want to prevent your drainage pipe from ever clogging up it's best to connect it into your water reservoir directly, there is no need for elbows to be able to change your highest water level. That brings us to the soil mix, this mix needs to be able to wick up the water but also be able to provide excellent drainage so your soil doesn't end up like a swamp in case you get rain. Sand is perfect for this and should be at the very least 1/3 of your mix but 1/2 to 2/3 is fine as well if you are short on compost. Biochar is again optional and can be up to 20% of your soil mix, ideally inoculated with microbes and nutrients in this part. Rest of the mix should be compost and ideally wicking beds contain compost worms as well so they break down the compost and poop out those valuable worm castings which are one of the best foods for plants. Clay should at all times be avoided in your soil mix because this can become swampy and anaerobic if you get a period of heavy rains, which I guess Geoff never gets in Jordan which is why it hasn't caused any issues for him. Finally I'd like to adres the fact that wicking beds are not necessarily a water saving technique. Water is growth and more leaf surface also means more evaporation from those leaves if you grow plants that prefer much higher humidity levels suck as Corchorus olitorius (aka jute or Egyptian spinach) for example. If you keep the water reservoir topped up then a plant like this will just excessively transpire to compensate for the lack in atmospheric humidity, at least it did for me here in the hot and dry Summer to the point that just a couple jute plants were drinking 50 liters a day in one of my wicking beds at which point I pulled them out. So keep that in mind when you select plants and also in regards to how often you top up your beds. That brings me to the one thing they are doing right in the video and that is a thick layer of mulch. Which happens to be the point that I'm doing wrong because I really don't like the hassle with mulch during planting and changing over beds from one crop to another but mainly because a good layer of mulch tends to invite both slugs and woodlice.
Would course river sand work in place of sand in the wicking bed soil? I have used the course river sand for the wicking action in the water reservoir space but I am not sure if you mean that you can also use this in the top soil layer? Regards
You plan to fill the entire desert with flower pots??? Which needs regular watering? _Is this practical?_ Also, there are pipes running everywhere (which contradicts your video's heading of 'permaculture'). This is a good effort but should come under the title of 'Farming in the desert'
@Costeño Salao Yes, but a reed bed is a natural water filtration system so farmers can recycle the used water from the house. I looked it up after I watched this video.
@@cqammaz53 it is what you said: a purifying system for the water flowing from the two kitchens mentioned in the video. I assume it is then used in the garden.
I would eccomend him that sand: th-cam.com/video/F2DLQw1K9Ms/w-d-xo.html No need to use plastic tank anymore. P.S. "Waterproof sand was invented by East Indian magicians. The sand was made by mixing heated sand with melted wax. The wax would repel water when the sand was exposed to water." Source: 1915 book The Boy Mechanic Book 2. Plus some biochar to: th-cam.com/video/p0YNFn9Dloc/w-d-xo.html make the soil pernamently fertile, done by ancient: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
These Greening the Desert series videos are incredibly inspiring.What a nice blessing amongst so much neighboring hostility. Thank you for sharing.
Very inspiring. Not only are the gardens great but the community is as well. Even people living in difficult circumstances can come together and create an oasis.
The most underrated channel in TH-cam! What a beautiful job you're doing mr Geoff. Thank you for the videos, keep em coming. Salute from Spain.
It's cool to see so much shade. It looks really comfortable as you walk us through now. I remember the dry, dusty, rock pile you started with. Total transformation.
Thanks for demonstrating how to make a wicking bed Geoff! 😀 I love all the recent videos you are making in Jordan. I took your online PDC course in 2015 and have recently purchased 80 acres in Arizona. Loving all these dry land videos to inspire me.
Our Homestead Journey how have your attempts in Arizona gone so far? I may be attempting some of this near Tucson in the months ahead
@@zachr1528 Did you?
You are my guru sir even though I've Been an organic gardener for 51 years! There's always something new you can learn. Thank you so much for all your videos.❤😆 God bless!❤
YES YES YES! THANK YOU GEOFF and TEAM! Love this. Thank you for sharing this, from your desert partner Arizona!
The changing tone of Geoff's voice literally leaves you on the edge of your seat.
The most practical and professional set up slash TH-cam content ever
@ 1:13 I think that is a woman named Ablaba's (spelling?) narrow small property in the back ground with the green plants and trees. She is/has been a student of this property and Teaching Center and they have helped her green up her small piece of land. There is a video of her somewhere, and I remember her giving a tour of her property.
So glad to see more videos! Amazing amount of growth in the Jordan Desert. Wow.
Thanks for the how to on the wicking beds, best one I seen! Straight forward!
It would be nice to hear more about the selection of shade cloth, and how long you use it at the garden.
I want to do this in India. I m in Dubai living a stressful life with nothing but work and I am so inspired by you to leave it all and go do it in India. Have no idea how to go about it though so watching and reading all I can
Top respect to you! 🙏
Why India ? India Is Mostly Blessed With Moderate Or Heavy Rainfall
@@ajmag4891 You need to study a little more.. lol
@@thatamerican3187 Uncle Sam.. if you know how to Search On Google, Type Floods In India.. Ha-Ha-Ha
@@ajmag4891 Oops even more edjamacation for the uninformed. th-cam.com/video/KhoV-vBAyFI/w-d-xo.html
@@thatamerican3187 Ha-Ha-Ha You Have No Clue What So Ever About India & Inidan Farming Uncle Sam LOL
a lot is possible on 2000 sq ft. Geoff your the inspiration for my food forest.
I've been watching these videos since the first Greening of the Desert. So wonderful to see the progress, year by year.
Channel should have millions of people tuning in.
Great video, helps a lot to see how your building and growing plants. Thanks!
Great demonstration, so clear and informative - fantastic work!
Gr8 stuff, m8!... wicking beds are the way to go for small SoCal backyards with built in worm farms...
Geoff your inspering to me,love the work you do,like the fact that you share your knowledge,and are on the front line,love to shake
your hand some day.
health to you and familly,thank you.
I would like to see more of what was shown at the beginning of this video (rooftop garden). In Cuba, rooftop patios offer best opportunities for people with limited access to ground space (at least in densely-populated areas in the centre of Santiago de Cuba and other cities). Please share if possible. Jazaq-alajú kairan
When everything is on contour, even a leaking hose is a functional resource :)
Happy to see your uploading more often. Its good see motivated progress.
God bless us everyone! Great work Geoff and all of us!
Beautiful Geoff! I wonder why you haven't overstacked the system a lot more with pigeon pea. Would help a lot with shading out the place a little more aswell, aside from all that mulch and free peas.
Much Love from Portugal, Karsten #EcoTopia.LandArt
Those are pretty cool raised bed gardens!
Great information, thanks alot!
Great to see the progress as you build an oasis.
Alhamduliah you are a great blessing for the people of Jordan
Excellent as always Geoff
Thanks for all you do. We are currently converting our lawns to food production and would like to try out some wicking beds. Have any issues come up where you need to empty and clean the beds or do you just continue to amend and plant, without ever having to empty it?
Are you growing lucerne around the base of your fruit trees? It could probably survive your summers in the shade and provide bit of mulch
Hi Johann, Yes, placing nitrogen-fixing legume trees between fruit trees will provide natural fertilization on the root level, as well as through the chop-and-drop of the mulching material.
Amazement at the change on that site! So what does one do if you can not get yards of veggie waste to make compost?
THANK YOU !
Another great video, liked and shared
very smart solutions for food recycling and turning desert into green lands
Multiple layers of crops would conserve moisture & help in transforming sub tropical ambiance to tropical ambiance
Is it windy on your site? Wind is a massive problem on my rooftop garden in sydney. It blows your mulch away and damages leafy greens. My favourite rooftop plants are ceylon spinach, eggplant and asparagus. I'll have to try out that brazillian spinach!
If you can't provide a windbreak or raise the edges of pots/beds, try weighing down the mulch with sticks, bricks or stones. A deep mulch will cushion much of the impact of the weights.
@VICtorian071 yep, got warrigal greens too but they dont taste great grown in full sun. Need to move them to a shadier spot so they can grow big green leaves
Ben Schiavi - I don't think Warrigal greens come close to silverbeet in terms of flavour. Try growing regular beetroot for the leaves, it's adapted to windy, coastal conditions and can handle getting it's leaves battered.
@@bonzothebrown7603 Good idea, i could do warrigal greens in the shady spots and beetroot in the sunny spots. Also trialling leaf amaranth
Production is growing every year. And are there any estimates on how it is growing? For chop'n'drop or edibles (or both), in figures?
from other sources: about 45-50 kilograms of edible product per year per square metre in a temperate climate.
A cheap solar air bubbler down the pipe would help aerate the wicking water, promoting plant growth, and prevent anaerobic action occurring.
soooooo awsome you don't tell everyone to use compost all the way through. I have rough time growing compost in Arizona as it gets up to 116 regulary with 12 percent humidity in the summer rotting roots and killing plants. I have one question though: how does the water pull up through the gravel? I have always seen sand used as cohesion and adheason is better with the smaller particles.
I was thinking of building a wicking bed on my balcony (a lot smaller: 45L), but I was wondering if I could use biochar instead of the pebbles. For two reasons: I want to save weight in case I have to move (it is a rental house), and I thought that I could activate the biochar with compost tea, to give the whole system an extra boost. Would you recommend doing this?
Superbe vidéo ... From France ^_^
I think Your compost is too hot ... 65°C is like fire !!!
Direct compost on the floor is better, put your carbage direct contact on soil and under much ... Less loose in fire, less carbonisation and more nutriments direct contact on floor ...
93VIDEO its is all about facilitating a compost full beneficial soil organisms to hold fertility, locked into the carbon decomposition cycle.
at 65 degrees it will kill any weed seeds and any pathogens or diseases
@@@SHANONisRegenerate : Don't afraid fréro et ose tester de nouvelle idées que l'on pratique en France ...
We love naturals seeds from compost ...
Pathogen ? ... Don"t afraid about any pathogen or new micro-faune on the floor ... Don't afraid if U see mushroom on direct compost on floor ... Vous ressemblez à ces agriculteurs conventionnels qui arrosent leur terres de chimie pour avoir un terrain propre ... interdit d'avoir des champigons, interdit les "mauvaises herbes", interdit de voire une graine pousser après avoir jeter des déchets végétaux directement sur le sol !
@@@DiscoverPermaculture : Natural compost or Artificial Compost, what is the fondamental question ?...
Sorry my english is too bad ... Si vous voulez vous faciliter le travail du compost, jetez directement vos végétaux sur le sol, ainsi vous n'aurez plus rien à faire ... Le sol décompose mieux les végétaux que les tas de compost artificiels que nous faisons ... compostage naturel direct sur le sol, on appelle cela en France, le compost à froids ....
IMPORTANT : Ne pas découper les végétaux avant de les composter à froid sur le sol ... La forme d'un végétal est une information en soi qui est importante pour le sol et l'esprit du sol ...
Le sol sait mieux décomposer les déchets végétaux que les humains avec leur technique de compost artificiel ... Vous perdez tellement de temps avec votre compost, alors que vous devriez passer vos journée à planter des arbres dans le désert et cultiver vos potager ...
Je vous aime, donc je vous conseille ....
@@@SHANONisRegenerate : Greeening desert, I Love it ... Allez remplir les déserts avec les déchets végétaux provenant des poubelles des villes ... Direct compost on the floor ... We love seed from compost, We love seed bring by birds ... We don't care about pathogen, Nous aimons les champignons et les moisissures ... Nous aimoins la micro-faunes qui décompose les végétaux sur le sol ...
Planting many many trees🌱 in the Desert 🌱. Save many life 🌱🌎🌏🌍🌱🌿🍃🌿🌿🍃🌿🌿🌳🌳🌳🌳🌲🌲🌲🌱🍃🌿🌲🌳
Which vine is it on 50th second purple vine green leaves name? Is it edible i have that in our home but till now we didn't eat it i think it's just decorative vine
Imran md Malabar Spinach
@@Kizarat thank you, is it edible?
@@Kizarat he saying solon spinich or something in this video is he talking other one or this one ?
Imran md Ah, he is saying Ceylon Spinach, but the names are interchangeable. And as someone who just finished a PDC and internship at the GTD site, i have ate it several times and its refreshing. It has a plain taste with a mild slimy texture.
@@Kizarat thank you for the information
Hey Geoff I still dont know why Jordan but im very thankful you re near..can we go learn from you in Jordan ?
Is there any chance of doing voluntary work in these areas from abroad ?
What is your lowest temp in the winter and how many days does it stay cold.
Looks good.
Seems to be some really passionate and intelligent people working or interning with this project
Can you mark your location on Google Maps! It would be cool to see your garden from a satellite 🛰! Hope it keeps 🌧 raining ☔️!
I actually see a lot of green spots in the Dead Sea Valley opposite Jericho that resemble the GTD site. For instance this neighborhood looks quite green 31.915678, 35.618341
Hi LLC, try 31.871544, 35.631410. Because there are no street addresses here, it's hard to put a permanent pin on the location in google maps although I have requested it again from Google.
Hi@@VasilyKiryanov, the reliance of heavy irrigation and chemical fertilizers is abundant throughout the region. Water for irrigation purposes remains heavily subsidized, encouraging waste, and the planting of water-intensive crops. What’s worse is that with more than 50 percent of Jordan’s water being used for agriculture, it only produces a small amount of the local food supply. But it won't last that much longer. Jordan is tapping into it's last non-renewable water resource - The Disi project - pumping at full capacity pulling 160 percent more groundwater than nature is able to put in. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
Geoff Lawton I actually ment household plots. Are these heavily watered as well?
Amazing work
wow so well done.massively inspiring, im digging swales in s spain.
what do the chickens feed on?
Mostly compost and very small amount supplemented grain.
Wow.
How beautiful.
Wicking bed! Thanks for sharing this info!
geof maby u can start up gofund me page fore the water pay ment . also i whas wondering if you could build desalt installation with sun power i mean a black garden hose al ready can get water up to 70 grade celcius then closed green house etc,,
Sure if you write down the technical details of the business plan for water delivery and the cost involved ;-)
great work!!!!!
cool
We are both the cause of desertification and its solution, anywhere and everywhere!
Let's regreen the entire planet.
🌏🌍🌎😉😊💖😀🤗
Still love the reruns!
This is the sensible "Great Reset"
I love your work Geoff but I'm a bit shocked by the crudeness of these wicking beds. As someone that people look up to and follow I expected you would've done a much better job here.
Let me walk the readers through some mistakes that are made here and how to do things properly.
First off it's best to take the 2 minutes that it takes to take the frame apart and cut the frame and container separately and just measure things out.
Then put the ends that you cut on the bottom and not let them stick out at the top to prevent people (think of the children!) from hurting themselves.
Ideally you'd also cut it inside somewhere to at the very least sweep those thousands of microplastics you just created and dispose of them properly rather than have them float through your garden.
Then instead of using gravel as a reservoir you use drainage pipe wrapped in geotextile. First of all this holds much more water, secondly soil can't end up in your reservoir as is possible with the example in the video. But also not entirely unimportant is that most gravel is some sort of limestone and always full of dust and this might have a negative impact on the pH of your water.
Then on to the actual wick, for this we are using coarse sand (mixed with raw biochar for even more water holding capacity and also to help keep the water clean if you want to get fancy). This sand is packed in tight to reduce it sinking later on and should be at the very least 1 inch higher than your highest water level two inch is better but also not more than that because water only wicks up a certain distance.
If you want to prevent your drainage pipe from ever clogging up it's best to connect it into your water reservoir directly, there is no need for elbows to be able to change your highest water level.
That brings us to the soil mix, this mix needs to be able to wick up the water but also be able to provide excellent drainage so your soil doesn't end up like a swamp in case you get rain. Sand is perfect for this and should be at the very least 1/3 of your mix but 1/2 to 2/3 is fine as well if you are short on compost.
Biochar is again optional and can be up to 20% of your soil mix, ideally inoculated with microbes and nutrients in this part. Rest of the mix should be compost and ideally wicking beds contain compost worms as well so they break down the compost and poop out those valuable worm castings which are one of the best foods for plants.
Clay should at all times be avoided in your soil mix because this can become swampy and anaerobic if you get a period of heavy rains, which I guess Geoff never gets in Jordan which is why it hasn't caused any issues for him.
Finally I'd like to adres the fact that wicking beds are not necessarily a water saving technique. Water is growth and more leaf surface also means more evaporation from those leaves if you grow plants that prefer much higher humidity levels suck as Corchorus olitorius (aka jute or Egyptian spinach) for example.
If you keep the water reservoir topped up then a plant like this will just excessively transpire to compensate for the lack in atmospheric humidity, at least it did for me here in the hot and dry Summer to the point that just a couple jute plants were drinking 50 liters a day in one of my wicking beds at which point I pulled them out.
So keep that in mind when you select plants and also in regards to how often you top up your beds.
That brings me to the one thing they are doing right in the video and that is a thick layer of mulch.
Which happens to be the point that I'm doing wrong because I really don't like the hassle with mulch during planting and changing over beds from one crop to another but mainly because a good layer of mulch tends to invite both slugs and woodlice.
Permaculture Playground mmmmm Woodlice
Would course river sand work in place of sand in the wicking bed soil? I have used the course river sand for the wicking action in the water reservoir space but I am not sure if you mean that you can also use this in the top soil layer?
Regards
You plan to fill the entire desert with flower pots??? Which needs regular watering? _Is this practical?_
Also, there are pipes running everywhere (which contradicts your video's heading of 'permaculture').
This is a good effort but should come under the title of 'Farming in the desert'
Go green go!
What is a read bed???
@Costeño Salao Yes, but a reed bed is a natural water filtration system so farmers can recycle the used water from the house. I looked it up after I watched this video.
@Costeño Salao So it is a plant, not a system to purified water using plants. Sorry, this is new to me.
@@cqammaz53 it is what you said: a purifying system for the water flowing from the two kitchens mentioned in the video. I assume it is then used in the garden.
Mr Nepau2 doesn't it appeal mosquitos?
These totes are $100 used where I am or i would try it.
same in Europe
Can I assume that all those curvy walkways and walls are also on contour?
😍
Love it!
I would eccomend him that sand:
th-cam.com/video/F2DLQw1K9Ms/w-d-xo.html
No need to use plastic tank anymore.
P.S. "Waterproof sand was invented by East Indian magicians. The sand was made by mixing heated sand with melted wax. The wax would repel water when the sand was exposed to water."
Source: 1915 book The Boy Mechanic Book 2.
Plus some biochar to:
th-cam.com/video/p0YNFn9Dloc/w-d-xo.html
make the soil pernamently fertile, done by ancient:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
Another show.
WHY? would anyone want to live in a desert?
did ever occurr to you that many just do not have a choice ?