Sunday, December 7, 2014

ISSUES WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT

In new studies suggesting pesticides are messing with the health and development of children. University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health have found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides widely used on food crops are related to way lower intelligence scores at age 7. The researchers found that every tenfold increase in measures of organophosphates detected during a mothers pregnancy corresponded to a 5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in the 7-year-olds. Children in the study with the highest levels of prenatal pesticide exposure scored seven points lower on a standardized measure of intelligence compared with children who had the lowest levels of exposure....so in closing:

We are getting lower IQ's with every year we let this happen, some time soon we will be at a point of no return with this issue. If we dont stop eating food that we can just grow ourselves we will all die off in a matter or years.

Growing your own food is 100% better for you, its easy and fun for the whole family. It brings people together in this age of cell phones and tablets that everyone has their head stuck in now days. We are losing more and more of being in-touch with earth with every single year that passes.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Making things grow

Id doesn't matter if you use dirt and pots or a garden in your backyard. Just keep growing and you will continue to eat. Growing food isn't hard just something you have to mess with everyday. It is a great reward when you can go out and fill a bowl with what you have just grown and take it back into your kitchen and be proud of what you have created.

If anyone has any question so far please let me know. Im here to help. I will be putting up new videos on my YOUTUBE channel real soon, showing way more. Baby turtle is doing great and we have an indoor Aquaponics setup now. It just got kicked off but I can see it is going to work just fine for what we need.

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Aquaponics Setup

I have been growing many plants many different was over the last 20 years. I do not eat much junk food or drink much pop. That stuff will kill you, but I have been growing an outside garden and indoor gardens and even in a greenhouse with only using water.

I doesnt take much to grow some food to eat, in the videos below I grow greens with just water and fish poop.

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I hope you enjoy these videos, this is from start to finish or maybe I should say from breaking ground till I put food in my family's mouths. It is this easy, I am not going to lie it was work but it was fun the whole time and the kids and wife help a little as well. If you do enjoy these videos please SUB to my YOUTUBE channel Im almost at 12,000 subs, never thought I would ever even get 500. God bless you all.

Breaking ground


Got the grow beds in


Plastic is on


The start of growth


My gold fish


One snail crippled the system


Pump stopped


Pump stops again but its a JUNGLE


New components for the greenhouse


Tomatoes and peppers ready


Still growing more


End of the growing season


Keeping baby turtles over winter till next spring.


Baby turtle part 2 over winter


As you see it isnt that hard to grow things for food and eat healthy.





Garden Shed

The beginner should find a small house or shed,
where the necessary potting, can be done in all
weathers, very important. It should be placed, if
possible, behind the Greenhouse, so that a door
may open from the one to the other. This may be done by extending
the back slope of the roof with a slate roof, and
the end of the potting-house being filled with glass
uniform with the Greenhouse, a not unsightly
arrangement results. If the fire be placed in the
potting-house, with a supply of coal, the necessary
attendance in bad weather is much less irksome,
and there will be heat enough to keep the frost out
of the potting house, so that bulbs and other plants
that are dormant in winter may be kept there.

There should be bins provided in which the various
soils and may be kept, so as to be available in all
weathers ; also shelves on which a store of pots of
all sizes may be placed ; and t may here be noted
that all pots which have been used should be
washed before they are put by, especially inside,
otherwise the roots of the next plant grown in them
will be very apt to adhere to the pots, rendering it
impossible to turn out the ball without breaking it.
Various small utensils will be required, as potting
trowels, dibbling sticks of various sizes, bell
glasses, etc., and, on a substantial bench, with a good
light, a large wooden potting-tray, in which the
composts can be mixed and the potting done in a
cleanly manner.

As all plants in pots are in an non natural state,
they must be treated accordingly. Plants in the
ground throw out their roots as far as they like,
and seek suitable nourishment; those in pots must
find it close at home, and they wind their roots
round the sides of the pot, forming in a short time a ball of matted roots. It is this compression of the
roots in the pot that causes plants, so cultivated, to
bloom when of a smaller size, and more freely,
than in their natural state, and causes also the
growth of the plants to be more stinted, and their
blooms smaller. The most skilful cultivator, therefore,
must never hope to produce green-house
plants which will bear comparison with those in
their native liability; all ho can do is to try to
approach it. It will br evident from this that it is
not desinxble to re-pot plants into larger pots too frequently
; young, vigorously growing plants re«
quire suchlike change at least once every year, sometimes
even more than once; but it seems to be
decided by the best authorities that old established
plants, in a healthy state, may remain in the same
pots for several years, not only without suffering,
but with advantage, though this does not apply to
all kinds of plants. The inconvenience of the
large pots, with which the house is apt to get filled,
has probably something to do with this opinion.