Creating a Greywater Banana Patch
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Not only did we plant bananas, we planted Gros Michel bananas!
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Grey water harvesting can be very easy. All it really takes is digging a swale and adding some plants.
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SO GREAT to have you back making gardening videos!
Thanks. Very glad to be back.
Reminds me of when I was a young lad and how I made channels in the sandbox and then used the hose to run water through them. Good times.
You are right about bananas eating everything. I live in the cold cruel north (zone 6a). I can only grow musa basjoo outside. Every year I cut down my 20+ year old clump and mulch it over with all of my cut off plant debris. The pile is 6 feet high and 15+ feet across. In the spring I pull mulch back just enough to expose the banana stems, too get it growing again. By fall there is zero trace of the mulch pile under the 25+ foot tall banana clump. It ate everything.
That is awesome.
Salak are sometimes planted in a row as living fence because they are so spiny. This way pollination is also taken care of :)
Would be nice to get something from RUclips about the channels I like having premiere. Guess they ate too many fukushima bananas or perhaps that is where all the gmo corn is being grown, or sugar beets 🤔 Nice your kids can celebrate the holidays and their former pets during one meal. And God bless you, Rachel! You do excellent camera work even when sneezing.
I think you need to hit the "bell" on my channel.
Good stuff.
Excellent idea, I do the same with my septic runoff and bananas. However I wouldn’t have designed the channel to flow so fast and race the water away. With the clay I doubt much moisture would sink in around this channel. I would dig deeper swales on contour so the water is trapped and pooled in each swale. Excess can flow out the end and go down to the next swale. The point being to stop the water in place and sink it in.
That's all well and good until rainy season hits. Then you wish you had some way to get the water out lol.
Age Sam the swales pool and trap water but when they are inundated by floods the excess flows off the end, hopefully to fill the next swale below it. The last swale can let the water run off safely. If flood water can move off too fast it often causes erosion. I’ve seen properties using huge networks of swales and they are highly flood resistant and are often the only properties in the area to not have damage. Having your soil wash away is heartbreaking. I had 250 mm of rain fall in a few hours on my mini swale backyard garden, it sucked it up amazingly and all my mulch and soil staying intact. I only have an acre but the theory is sound for large or small scale systems.
@@lawntofoodforest So would that apply for 250 mm of rain almost daily for 6 months of the year? Wouldn't the ground get water logged after a few weeks?
Age Sam if you face devastating floods on a daily basis perhaps start with the ark then build a garden inside it. But seriously the ground can absorb a serious amount of water, it will create underground springs and aqueducts that will last for decades. With 250mm falling daily holding onto your soil would be a tough task, swales and trees in the ground will help slow it’s flow and limit the destruction, without them your soil and mulch will end up in a river, heading for the ocean. Do you measure your annual rainfall in meters or in Empire State buildings?
Darn it, missed the live premier!
You're family is a wonderful team.
p.s. best musical content out there haha
Okay how sneezed ? bless you
Daft Punk those bananas.
Don't forget to put some kind of screen over the end of the pipes so that the critters/frogs/snakes/bug don't get in them. :)
That's no fun.
I is makin' a Banana Circle with Papaya cuz Thais like dar thar spicy salad stuff!
Two green thumbs up !!!
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Love it. What nice soil you have! That’s what we plan on doing between our minibusplanetrain house and ohana. 🌈😃🤙
put some beaver dams in there.
Everyone knows bananas are a good source of potassium. Not everyone knows that all potassium is radioactive. There is even a unit: BED which is Banana-Equivalent Dose which is about 0.1uSv. Today, the radiation levels in Fukushima are slightly higher than 1 banana per hour at 0.135 uSv/hour.
I eat 3-4 bananas a day. It would seem that your exposition explains my amazing superpowers. I will now use the name "Radioactive Banana Man". Thanks again for your support.
Love the song. When are we getting an album?
Eventually.
That sag in the drainage pipe looks like a clog waiting to happen... or is that intentional?
To keep critters from going up the pipe?
It's just not propped yet.
7:07 ITS MAKIN THE FROGS GAY!!!
thanksgiving pie solo serpentine passive irrigation station sensation!
Am sure you're aware, but those banana plants in a couple of years are going to block off nearly 100% of the light to those windows. I've made that mistake before and the missus made me cut them down and move them
Any thoughts about soaps or detergents to avoid sending to the plants?
Theoretically you could try to find natural soap made from e.g. soapnuts. This way is should be fully bio-degradable
Yea, not really agree with the good man's opinion on that. Sure the bananas will take in detergent water & probably not die, but it doesn't mean it's good for them...or whoever ends up consuming them. Idk, maybe he uses some biodegradable detergent or something so it's not as harmful?
How bad is having raised vegetable beds on top of a septic leach field? Asking for myself.
🙃 Ask and you shall receive... thanks for the quick turnaround or maybe it was just coincidence. Either way thanks for the share. Also why did you go from a zigzag to a straight path for the water?
Because we walk through the middle part - easier to step over.
I clicked on this video because the image said to
Gardening in a new area is such a challenge. Fun but makes you pull your hair out.
We live live out in country and we have all used gray water from every water source except toilets to septic system. This is the gardener not helper (husband) posting.
Did you write the Hamster song??
Yes.
Sheesh man, don't you have termites?
Better keep an eye on that house, your stumps look very vulnerable
Yes and yes, I will.
Are those Silk Figs that I spy in the beginning?
Six salak plants. The odds are in your favor.
Hey david you always grab up some strange fruits have you ever had ohelo berry,aibu,lakoocha,hala or biriba?
Not that I know of.
@@davidthegood man i dunno where youre st in the tropics but u could build up a cool collection ...chilean guava is rare and a tasty lil berry fruit you could grow underneath all the others
Gardening in thongs (Flip FLops)... a man after my own heart.
Salak is delicious, hope you're lucky with opposite sexes!