arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

@contra welcome to the instance!

A lighthearted article about my first designed #garden. Was not easy to wrap it up in a simple page, and I'm not a pro so don't expect anything special, but it's fun and I packed it with #pictures!

(Constructive) criticism and opinions are very welcome!

http://www.arteteco.com/20steps/

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#permaculture , #foodforest

I'd like to publicly thank @freemo for this qoto.org instance. We basically have a kickass instance with unlimited characters, full-text search and more just for the two of us =D
I hope that regardless of the little activity qoto is here to stay (... is it?)

A question here: What does qoto stand for?

@davidrodri Me passò tan bien en el principio. Para mi esperiencia, hay mucho ruido aqui y lo mas dificil es crear una buena timeline de personas que sigues... cuanda la tienes, todo empeza ser mas facil.

Bienvenido!

(lo siento para mi castillano, espero que es comprensible!)

Another hot day, another bath. It is still rough around the edges esthetically, but I'd say that ecologically is quite stable: the fishes (gambusia) are able to eat most of the mosquito's larvaes and are providing enough fertilizer for the plants to grow; papyrus, iris and lotus are giving enough oxygen to fishes, and are eating up most of their feces, keeping the water clean.
#garden #pond #permaculture

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@polydad Hi, welcome! What brings you here?

Yes I think the idea on mastodon is to be used as a bouncing spot for other works. Depends on the instances though, but you usually don't post full articles here.

@polydad I'd go simple and say food, air and water. Don't overlook the basis of everything, people culture and economics rely on it.

So food forests, ways to close the nutrient cycles (graywater plants, composting sites...), an ecosystem able to provide for, sustain and make that people happy.

Just my two cents, if you really are making a city and want some help with that side of the design ping me =)

@mkwadee What beautiful pictures those are... thanks for sharing!

Dynamic accumulators are plant that take nutrients from down in the soil, accumulate them in the leaves and flowers and release them once they die. Wait, isn't that what all plants do? Yes.

That is why dynamic accumulators are not really a thing, even though people in #gardening and #permaculture say otherwise.

Fixed on #wikipedia !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_accumulator

@Fenris
What did you use for it?

@ral , how is your little fella doing? My gingers are doing fine, I love the way they grow in neat angles!

https://qoto.org/media/YsX81AhsPUJZFWlAj58

@rustyswarf it is a bit heavy to move, but I guess you could put it on wheels if needed.

Barrel is a normal 220 liters one used for olive oil, quite common here (10 bucks). If you get one, be sure it's food grade. The holes were done with drill, jigsaw and heat gun.

For herbs like basil, rosemary and others that grow in height, not in a bush is perfect. Sage probably will struggle to yield, for example.

There are still flaws to this idea, mainly: I still lose some soil from the holes sometimes. Maybe a better hole design could make it better.

@rustyswarf Advantages are: very little and automated watering; giving fertility directly to the soil, I like composting in place and since you don't change the soil you can inoculate mycorrhizal fungi and other microorganisms; saving a lot of space as you can fit comfortably 30 plants in here; Looks cool.

I already tested it before, without the watering system which is a recent idea of mine, and worked quite well.

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Chikoos ripe on the ground, not on the tree, so the #ants can't eat them before other animals do. To solve the problem, they create a kind of greenhouse with leaves around the chikoos, speed up the ripening and the whole colony feasts on it.

Wonders of #entomology.

Picture taken in a #farm in #india

@freemo I also enjoy Sardinia, although someone could argue that colling it "Italy" is a bit of a stretch =D

@freemo what a beautiful area... some of Italy best kept forests there

@freemo woa, nice, whereabout is your heritage from?

@freemo I'm in Italy right now, in Naples, should move for the North and then East next week. What about you?

@freemo Come here then. We have good food!

Ecosystem is not just massive scale things. What about the Howard Odum's jar ecosystems? Keep them well sealed and they may go on indefinitely.

Plant creates Carbohydrates from air with light, little mites eat the organic debris and release CO2, the plants reuses it to create more plant, and so on. Ecosystems always strive for abundance.

We'll see how this works out =)

#ecosystem #ecology