We previously built a first flush diverter to improve the quality of the rainwater we collect off of the roofs, and it has been working quite well. The first rains fill up the diverter with water that contains dust and animal droppings from the roof, and then after that, the water comes down a chain to full…
New project: Indoor gardening
I’ve been thinking about growing food plants indoors for about a month now. I’m not sure whether it is worth the effort, but I’m experimenting with it to see. I’m less interested in hydroponics as I’ve read that it can cause an unusually high level of certain chemicals in your food. And what’s wrong with…
Passion fruit and sesbania flower and sorghum
We are starting to eat more and more different kinds of food from our land these days. We aren’t exactly gardening yet. Instead, we are planting various kinds of plants that seem to be quite happy growing with little or no work on our part. (Apparently the tropical climate and soil around here isn’t exactly…
Orange chillis
After finishing our work on the electrical wiring of BaanMae today, Praew and I took a walk around the pond to check up on the progress of various projects and came across two nice chilli pepper plants that seem to have grown on their own from some plants that were planted nearby a number of…
Pictures of our little rice paddy
K’Tanawat has been experimenting with a small rice paddy on the side of the pond near the pump shed we built. He is using a strain of rice that doesn’t need to be flooded all the time to grow, so it uses a lot less water. Here are some pictures: He just watered it a…
Edible plant pictures
Today we swung by the land after going shopping at Villa just to check up on things. We noticed some nice looking edible plants. In particular, this bush which grows wild on the north side of our pond has some striking orange flowers: The plant is called “the candle bush” (senna alata) and based on…
First crop photos
Today I noticed that some of the first crop of plants that K’Tanawat planted on our land are starting to yield their first crop. So I thought I would share some pictures. The corn is looking really promising: And these papaya plants sprouted on their own from some discarded fruit wastes and we transplanted them…
New really fast bamboo growth rates
A few weeks ago I noticed this new shoot popping up from the same bamboo cluster I had posted about the growth rate before: This is the first actual bamboo shoot coming up from the ground that we’ve seen from our new plants. The earlier measurements I was taking were from branches coming off of…
Bamboo update: One month later
In an earlier post, I was monitoring the growth speed of a new bamboo plant. I found that the first shoots were growing at about 13cm per day. But, of course, that rate would have to slow down at some point. One month later, here is a picture of the same plant: It measured at…
Natural swimming ponds and biological filters
I have been reading about natural swimming ponds and biological filters for the past few months. The basic idea is that you don’t need to go the chemical route with chlorine or even ozone filtering to get a clear, clean swimming pool (or pond!). An alternative that is gaining in popularity is to create a…
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