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Self-Irrigating Gutter Update

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Gardening, Self Watering Containers
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...barrel. Unfortunately the lower gutter leaked around 50 gallons of stored rainwater down into the garage below (our house is on a hill and the garage is at street level). To prevent this problem in the future I put a manual irrigation timer on the barrel so that if there is a leak, I won’t lose all the water at once. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeCgGAbvwk If I were to do this project again, I’d also use a refinement that Larry Hall just poste...

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Permaculture Design Course at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

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...homescale vs. large scale, appropriate scale technologies. Presentation on rainwater and greywater basics, fundamental earthworks basics, observation and mapping water excersize, greywater workshop, rain barrel building demo APRIL 13 / WATER OFF-SITE – including larger scale home systems design, hands-on rain barrel/greywater systems, watershed basics, home install of 1,500 gl tank, tour of home and greywater systems, tour of nearby Trabuco Creek,...

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Decomposed Granite as Mulch: A very bad idea

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Gardening, Native Plants
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...anite (DG) used as a mulch. Put some plastic landscape fabric down (blocks rainwater in our climate, fyi) and top that plastic with DG. They then punch some holes in the DG/plastic and pop in succulents and maybe a rosemary bush or two. By the time the yard becomes a sad, desertified tangle of unhappy succulents and crabgrass, the flippers are long gone. I’ve got a big issue with DG as mulch. In order for DG to look good, it’s got to be compacted...

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Saturday Linkages: Pallets, Ladybugs and Portlandia

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Saturday Linkages
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...egs – Outstanding – IKEA Hackers http://po.st/a3Hn0G Jailed for collecting rainwater: http://theflyingtortoise.blogspot.com/2014/08/gary-harrington-aged-64-and-resident-of.html?spref=tw … [Update: A reader notes that there is more to this story than the headline indicates–looks like the person jailed may have been damming streams and taking water from his neighbors.] Little chicks wearing muffin wrappers as tutus! http://www.recyclart.org/2014/08/...

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Water your Trees with Greywater

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Gardening, Trees, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...e Brad Landcaster’s thoughts on soaps and detergents. Let me also note the utility of Landcaster’s books and website when it comes to all things water conservation related, especially how to grade and configure tree plantings to optimize rainwater irrigation. One last and rarely mentioned issue, is if “greywater” should be one word or two or, in the neologistic spirit of “apisoir,” perhaps we need to invent a sexier word for reusing our water. Gre...

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