Bucket of Death Update
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Comments (16)"Is the question whether hostas will grow in water, or whether coffee grounds prevent weeds or that nothing will stop mosqitos from anoying humans ?" Manfred No, the question is to be or not to be? I understand that the little mosquito donuts and can be put in water then water from that water to keep the biological control going all the time. I could and should have covered the holes with polybond fibre cloth which would keep the mosquitoes out of the buckets although I donÂt know if mosquitoes are in the buckets? The other thing IÂm doing is a pot inside a pot with a saucer to increase the water. You canÂt tell as well if they need water but IÂve found that the normal size saucers donÂt hold as much water as the hosta like to have. I just bought some pots a bit more attractive than the buckets without holes and drilled my own. The question of small hosta, just use smaller pot then up pot in a year or so. One advantage to the setup as it works with the buckets is: the water evaporates in the bottom of the bucket then condenses in the media above so I havenÂt had any problem regardless of the plant size. It would be interesting to know if other things like the coffee grounds would work to hold down weeds in pots. Coffee grounds are also reported to have a small nitrogen charge. I was looking at a pot today with that little slug trail running across the top of the coffee grounds, I have not seen any real scientific work to support the theory that coffee grounds deter slugs, I hope they do. Oops, just took the dog out to pee and found 1 large slug in two different pots crawling across the coffee grounds. This doesn't rise to scientific proof but I don't think that coffee grounds deter slugs it didnÂt deter these two. Note; I do not recommend leaving pots outside using this method, the little green plant has been out doors the 3 years it has been in the pot but the rest are going into the unheated garage....See MoreBucket Farm 2009 Update 6/15 (Pix heavy)
Comments (27)The ground cherries started out so small its hard to believe they've grown so big. The plants are nice and stocky and so far I've had one branch on one plant fall over and most of my plants aren't staked at all. The tomatillos I have are very spindly looking and I've already had to stake up the 4 I have in the ground. I've seen pictures on this forum of other peoples tomatillos and they looked much more robust than the variety I'm growing. I'll probably try a different variety next year. I got to taste my first ground cherry today. I noticed one of the pods had fallen off and decided to sample it. They're really, really tasty. I was tempted to grab a few more but I've read that you should wait until they drop to eat them. I have a feeling my family will be snatching them out of the air as they fall once they try them. :)...See MoreOT: breezy, regarding your photo bucket question
Comments (12)Hi Badgergirl! Thanks for thinking of me and for trying to help this non-techie. I had no idea you could do a software update so I tried, but without success. I can't find anyplace to click "software update." I'd love to be able to use so many of the apps that I can't download with an IOS lower than 4.0. Here's what I see when I go to the "General" tab in the Settings icon. About Sounds Network Bluetooth Location services Auto lock Passcode lock Restrictions Home Date and time Keyboard International Accessibility Battery percentage Reset Under none of these tabs can I find a place to update software. Can you please steer me in the right direction from here? Am I missing something? I'm starting to wonder if I have some reject iPad as I have other issues with it also like the generic "Mail" tab not connecting to my email anymore. I love this little gizmo, but it's starting to annoy me all the things I can't do on it that others seem to be able to do. Thank you!...See MoreNeed Help With My Dutch Bucket System root rot
Comments (1)Hard to tell without pictures. If you have root rot the roots will be grey or brown and will fall apart if you barely pull on them. They're basically dead and rotting. This happened to me once when the water got too warm. If it gets too hot the bacteria and fungus grows like crazy, and the roots are weak from the hot water, so they attack the roots. The dying roots just supplies more food for the nasties. the whole system can go bad very quickly. I put some reflective mylar around my sump bucket to reflect the sun, which dropped the heat. Then I took all my plants out and cleaned off as much of the dead roots as I could. Then with the plants out of the system I ran tap water with a lot of bleach in it through the system for about an hour. Then I used a toothbrush and scrubbed everything with the bleach water. The bleach kills fungus, bacteria, parasites... After the thorough cleaning I ran clean water through it for about 15 minutes to get rid of the bleach. Then put in fresh nutrient water with a good dose of hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide helps feed oxygen to the roots to help them recover and it kills bacteria and fungus. Maybe some of this was overkill, but my plants survived. That was about 4 years ago, and some of my plants are still growing strong....See Moredelta9dave
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