So here's a little patch of grass that is alongside the road.
Over here's our neighbour's side, and this is our side.
And you'll notice over there, significantly more dandelions.
Over here there is dandelions, but they're quite a bit fewer, and the ones that are here are much larger.
Can you guess why this difference is?
Neither one of us have used any sort of weedkillers,
fertilizers or anything of the sort.
Really, the only difference that I've noticed
is they mow their lawn fairly regularly.
I don't mow the lawn quite as often.
See that?
When you damage the grass, the weeds are more able to grow.
But that said, I am currently in the middle of mowing the lawn.
Now that's done, let's go work on my hydroponics system.
So this here's where I wanted to do it
along the side of the garage here.
I'll probably move those bones and stuff.
But I've measured this out,
and I need roughly 20 buckets for this length here,
and then 30 for that length there,
and I'll probably double them up.
So I need 40
and 60. So that's 100 buckets in this area.
Now if we come around back,
you can see my compost pile which I'll probably move
so I can fit more buckets there
and then you can see the bunnies have mowed this part.
See I've been moving their cage around,
and they've actually mowed this entire back yard.
I think their permanent location for this little kennel thing is gonna be
right over there a little bit farther.
I'm gonna cut some of trees. You can see I've already been cutting at them to...
And I've been throwing the branches in with them.
They don't seem to want to eat the tree branches though.
And yeah, I guess that means the pond is going to go right around
here where this old refrigerator is sitting.
Let's go get some buckets and see what we can do.
And I put a little spout on the side. I'll
have a little drip for the water in [incomprehensible talking]
Really? Oh that's really cool. So you don't do [incomprehensible]? No
So there's the buckets, and there's where I've currently got them
lined up, this might not be the final
position. I ended up buying 200 buckets
because they sold them to me for 50 cents apiece
so that's a fantastic deal and I've got
another hundred of them back at the
ranch right now, which I'll be setting up in the greenhouse.
So as you can see I've kind
of decided to not put buckets right here
because this is a very shady area and if
I remember right hardly anything grew in
that area last year in fact I might even
move these buckets and you put another row
down, they're getting a little bit more sunlight.
I'm also going to trim this
tree a little bit to get a little more
light in that way. So I just put a little
bit of water in the bucket
mostly to hold them down so they don't
blow away but also to dissolve that
frosting because they did have a bit of
frosting in them. The frosting really
shouldn't hurt things but definitely if
I get rid of it it'd be a less of a
sticky job anyway now I've got to think
of what to put in them and how to hook
them up so I've kind of decided against
gravel first of all because gravel is
going to kind of expensive but mostly
because it's extremely heavy and what am
I going to do with the gravel when I'm
ready to take down the bucket so I've
decided I might do straw maybe straw
with little gravel on top of it to hold
it down but straw act just like the
gravel but will be much lighter and more
compostable so I'm going to go find
somebody that's selling straw and get a
few bills that's for the bucket hookup
I'm going to have the tubing going
across the top of them with the drippers
and the pump pumping the water out of
the pond and then I'm going to have a
pipe going down probably very similar to
this pipe here going down through this
trench I can even have it buried so I
can walk on it with a tube going from
each bucket into the pipe I'm not
entirely sure how I'm going to attach
the tube to the bucket though because I
can't have it leaked and it's very
difficult to blue things to the bucket
on the smaller system I use things like
screwed down and it clamped tight with a
gasket but each of those costs of dollar
and I kind of want to do this under a
dollar for bucket
so that's kind of out of the question
but I'm thinking maybe I could put a
hole in there that's slightly smaller
than tube and squeeze the tube in then
add some silicone that I'm going to do
some testing over this next little while
see what's best before I start punching
holes in all of them anyway come over
here to the front of the house I've
actually planted some potatoes along
here along the walkway and see some of
them are already started coming up and
these bushes here I finally have
permission to get rid of them which is
excellent because they are some ugly
bushes and yeah so it'll leave a big
scar in the grass but that's fine
because I'm going to fill up this area
and put some nice square beds of sugar
beans or potatoes I do like potatoes so
here's the aquaponics system inside the
house as you can see the waters a little
bit green but the majority of this is
the same water that was here last time I
showed the update I've only done a
couple of minor like feces removals I
haven't actually changed out the water
there's a little algae growing but
that's really not an issue just yet but
it is definitely a sign that there's
lots of nutrients in the water come up
here you can see that the strawberries
have multiplied because I brought them
in because we got a frost coming yeah
that the spinach hasn't been doing
particularly well you see the spinach is
you know most of it's actually died out
but the lettuces are you on just fine
see especially up here were they getting
a little bit of extra light in from the
window look at this it's actually pull
some of these leaves out of there
you know first harvest a little bitter
but not bad
yeah that's as people have predicted the
tubing has began growing algae but long
as doesn't plug it I'm alright with it
and finally I want to show you guys this
new computer that canyons dad and
brother set up for me if we come down
here you can see the actual computer and
it's one of those with a window in the
side of it put her nose right up to the
glass and you can see I think that's the
graphics card there it's the three fans
on it this thing is crazy fast you can
see the box and motherboard came in
right here so this laptop that I've been
using for the last couple of weeks this
one took 44 minutes to render a 10
minute long video my other laptop which
is currently getting fixed would take
about ten minutes to render a ten minute
video this thing here this thing does
the same ten minute video in just three
and a half minutes and that really makes
a difference so thank you to cedar and
David for helping me set this up and for
everyone else
hope you enjoyed I'll see you next time
this right here is why I haven't planted
anything beside the potatoes yet I guess
no yesterday and what was this 18th of
May
but that's expected for this area