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Planting onions

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on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 15:27

11February 

PLANTING ONIONS

 
Today we planted onions on a free space in one of the beds in the garden. When they where in the ground we watered them quite much and put the mulch back in place in between the plants. After that we put up a plastic tunnel over the planted area to make it into a small greenhouse. When all this was done we took the remaining onion plants and looked for areas around the garden where they could be planted.
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Tribodar the Movie October 2011

Submitted by psichael
on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 22:59

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The Tribodar automatic watering system

Submitted by psichael
on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 22:21

 

We first started experimenting with our watering system, last summer. With no real information to guide us. We just started improvising. The results got better as we went on, and we may have finally found a formula that gives all the desired results: to water directly under the layer of mulch, have water soaking into the bed deep enough and evenly, use our water supply with electric pump and expansion tank.

The first thing we did was to connect 16 mm PE tube to a garden hose. 3 mm holes were drilled in the PE tube at +-15 cm intervals, sometimes perforating the tube on two sides.

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Preparing for the Solar Shower Experiment

Submitted by psichael
on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 21:53

 

Today our second volunteer of the year, Jurjen went on with his journey, leaving Tribodar. We'll miss him.

I finished the greenhouse we were making next to our dry toilets, so we can vacate the space the temporary greenhouse was taking up, to start making our bathroom. Next weekend we will have an experimental workshop, in which we will assemble a solar water heater, or a couple of different models of them.

I have been reading about possible models, and I would like to try the following:

  • a panel with PE tube of ½ inch, connected to an old electric boiler, to store the hot water;

  • an old

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Cane wall finished

Submitted by psichael
on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 20:32

After some experimenting we finished our cane separation wall. We first tried to make it in one panel, but we had difficulties moving it, and it got damaged, so we took it apart again. We then made it in three panels, which were 1.5 m wide. This way it was easy to move them around, and when we want to move the wall to ahother place, we can just dismantle it by breaking it up in three pieces again.

We like the material and will make the finishing of our dry toilet with it.

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Tribodar na Feira do Armario

Submitted by psichael
on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 18:57

 

On Saturday 19th of march, two helpers, Moabi, Manu Inca and Michael went to the market in Portalegre; not to buy  vegetables, but to sell things they didn't need anymore. Inside the marked hall and at the same time than the usual vegetable market, Xana from Castelo de Vide organises the Feira do Armario, a social event that brings people closer together, and allows them to exchange things they don't need anymore or sell them, like at a regular flee market.

To give the event a little extra live, Michael put on his suite and brought along his saxophone to blow a couple of jazzy tunes.
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A new volunteering season has started

Submitted by psichael
on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 21:46

After a long winter without helpers, at last the new volunteering season has opened. We had a break to have time to dedicate to our newborn, Manu Inca, and because we had no good conditions for the helpers during winter (it gets quite cold here :) Now we hope we can keep Tribodar open for helpers all year through. This will require some extra infrastructure though. We need to finally get our permanent bathroom and a heatable space for helpers for winter. All this is planned for the summer though.

Our first helpers are really nice.

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Sorting seeds

Submitted by psichael
on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 13:33

Yesterday we have been sorting our seed bank. As we have more than hundred kinds of seed, it was complicated to keep track of them, so we sorted them per month, classifying seeds that can be sown for several months on the earliest one. Now each month we just look true what we have for that month, and at the end of the month move the ones that can still be sow to the next month. I hope we will be able to grow it all. Next we will try to keep track of the lunar calendar and sort them further by root, leaf, flower and fruit.

Let's see if we find time to keep track of the seeding and planting

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Drying Camomile

Submitted by psichael
on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 00:45

Today I looked at the thousends of wild camomile flowers, and felt it was time to go and pick some. Last year we picked quite a few, but we put them to dry in a dusty spot, and neglected to check on them. When I found them they were all dirty : / . So this year my seccond thought was: let's make a drying rack. I had already baught some solid mosquito net, and quickly found a couple of leftover pieces of wood, and so I had something together pritty quickly. For drying cammomila it will work just fine. Later I want to adapt it to dry tomatos in the summer.

Photos follow.

 

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