"how-to" videos
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11 Oaks and Buckets of Rain are always in the process of producing "how-to" videos of their ''gravity fed drip irrigation" and "extreme urban gardening" techniques. The 'drip' videos are a step by step process, in English. You may want to have a pencil and paper ready to take a few notes, as this is probably not what you're expecting! The drip irrigation tutorials are meant to be viewed in order.
Gravity fed drip irrigation for areas with no rain and no electricity:
Introduction to the Tutorials
Please take a couple of minutes to view this before the actual tutorials. Thanks!
Part One: Garden Bed Preparation
Gravity fed drip irrigation requires a flatter, smoother, more granular surface than traditional gardens. We also cover adding soil amendments directly to a trench dug where the vegetables will go.
Part Two: The Bucket Kit and Laying the Pipe
Here's how to construct a 'family sized' system. The efficiency of drip irrigation increases with garden size, but some people may just have a small space and a few mouths to feed.
Part Three: Installing the Emitters
Get ready to meet the beauty of non-pressure compensating, external emitters. Cheap, long lasting, easy to clean- foolproof!
Part Four: Making Water Flow!
We fill the bucket and further explain the importance of smooth garden beds so there is no impeding the horizontal movement of our water through the soil.
Part Five: The Community Garden Kit
Now for the big barrel. Everything else is pretty much the same except the size of the reservoir and the length of pipe we can use.
Part Six: Seedling Propagation, pressurized water, pipe handling, more.....
Future lessons will cover: seed propagating, crop rotation, storing your system when not in use, and more, your suggestions are welcome.
Extreme Urban Gardening Techniques: Food Security for the Landless
These can be viewed in any order, but some videos contain important items of information and you really should watch them all in order to get the 'big picture'.
Cyclone Fence Gardening It's brutally simple, but watch it anyway, there may be a couple of things in here you've not thought of before. Your additional comments are always welcome. Brainstorm my friends!
Gardening on a Concrete Wall Just like it sounds. Hang pots of vegetables on wall-- and garden with zero footprint.
Food Ladders These lean gently on a wall, be it concrete or laminate (corregated steel or pallets or cardboard).
Recycling Kitchen Water for Irrigation Plants will purify the water, so you don't blow bubbles when you eat your veggies!
Three Common Pests Powdery mildew, aphids, and cabbage worms. We don't offer any organic recipes, they're already on the web somewhere. This is just to make the new urban gardener without land aware of the 'enemies'.
Food Totem- Bamboo here's how to build a vertical garden that is light, portable, and productive. If you have no land - DON'T MISS THIS!
Food Totem- Concrete scrap concrete may be amongst the most available junk on the planet. Here's how to turn it into a vertical garden and grow vegetables when space is extremely limited.
Dear Viewer: Chris is in Guatemala City producing these videos RIGHT NOW. So he hopes to post a new one daily.
We think you will appreciate what we are doing with Living Ladders and Food Totems. Please come back.
We'd love to send you a free DVD containing all the lessons, just contact us!
11 Oaks and Buckets of Rain are always in the process of producing "how-to" videos of their ''gravity fed drip irrigation" and "extreme urban gardening" techniques. The 'drip' videos are a step by step process, in English. You may want to have a pencil and paper ready to take a few notes, as this is probably not what you're expecting! The drip irrigation tutorials are meant to be viewed in order.
Gravity fed drip irrigation for areas with no rain and no electricity:
Introduction to the Tutorials
Please take a couple of minutes to view this before the actual tutorials. Thanks!
Part One: Garden Bed Preparation
Gravity fed drip irrigation requires a flatter, smoother, more granular surface than traditional gardens. We also cover adding soil amendments directly to a trench dug where the vegetables will go.
Part Two: The Bucket Kit and Laying the Pipe
Here's how to construct a 'family sized' system. The efficiency of drip irrigation increases with garden size, but some people may just have a small space and a few mouths to feed.
Part Three: Installing the Emitters
Get ready to meet the beauty of non-pressure compensating, external emitters. Cheap, long lasting, easy to clean- foolproof!
Part Four: Making Water Flow!
We fill the bucket and further explain the importance of smooth garden beds so there is no impeding the horizontal movement of our water through the soil.
Part Five: The Community Garden Kit
Now for the big barrel. Everything else is pretty much the same except the size of the reservoir and the length of pipe we can use.
Part Six: Seedling Propagation, pressurized water, pipe handling, more.....
Future lessons will cover: seed propagating, crop rotation, storing your system when not in use, and more, your suggestions are welcome.
Extreme Urban Gardening Techniques: Food Security for the Landless
These can be viewed in any order, but some videos contain important items of information and you really should watch them all in order to get the 'big picture'.
Cyclone Fence Gardening It's brutally simple, but watch it anyway, there may be a couple of things in here you've not thought of before. Your additional comments are always welcome. Brainstorm my friends!
Gardening on a Concrete Wall Just like it sounds. Hang pots of vegetables on wall-- and garden with zero footprint.
Food Ladders These lean gently on a wall, be it concrete or laminate (corregated steel or pallets or cardboard).
Recycling Kitchen Water for Irrigation Plants will purify the water, so you don't blow bubbles when you eat your veggies!
Three Common Pests Powdery mildew, aphids, and cabbage worms. We don't offer any organic recipes, they're already on the web somewhere. This is just to make the new urban gardener without land aware of the 'enemies'.
Food Totem- Bamboo here's how to build a vertical garden that is light, portable, and productive. If you have no land - DON'T MISS THIS!
Food Totem- Concrete scrap concrete may be amongst the most available junk on the planet. Here's how to turn it into a vertical garden and grow vegetables when space is extremely limited.
Dear Viewer: Chris is in Guatemala City producing these videos RIGHT NOW. So he hopes to post a new one daily.
We think you will appreciate what we are doing with Living Ladders and Food Totems. Please come back.
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