Soil
What to Expect When You Grow Vegetables In Your Lawn
Thursday, November 20th, 2008I finally found out what this is, sticking out of the potato above. There’s a better picture of it in this post about potato worms. Apparently this is a classic example of what happens, when you convert your lawn into a vegetable garden. They’re called wireworms and the problem is not limited to potatoes in [...]
Soil Temperature Logging
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008The soil temperature sensor is now in the ground and measurements have been coming in for days now. I have placed the NSLU2 computer in the windowsill and laid an Ethernet cable out to the raised beds. The scripts for this logging functionality are available here:
make_temps_2.sh
update_temp_2.sh
owfs is used as interface to the 1-wire network.
As expected [...]
Soil Temperature Sensor
Monday, October 27th, 2008This is my new homemade soil temperature sensor with a DS18S20 IC. The sensor is in the top of the picture. The left cable is coming from the NSLU2 computer and the right cable continues up to the air temperature sensor, which is also a DS18S20 IC. So now there are two IC’s on my [...]
New Soil Moisture Sensor
Saturday, October 4th, 2008My Watermark soil moisture sensor arrived from the US the other day, and I’m currently working on connecting it to the small computer that will do the measurements and put them online on this website. As far as I know it works by measuring the electrical resistance in some material inside the sensor, and this [...]
A New Direction
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Okay, this blog is about to go in a slightly different direction. It will not be your usual gardening blog, but more about what will happen if you add some high tech to your garden. The reason I got myself into this whole grow-your-own-food thing was that I felt I had to. It was the [...]
Warning: The Beans Are Out Of Control
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008The beans are growing like crazy now. There are beans to be harvested every three days, both runners and the smaller ones. The trellis is made from nine bamboo sticks held together with plastic ties (yes I know - it’s not a very sustainable lifestyle with all that plastic 
). I have an earlier [...]
How To Plant Trees
Saturday, September 6th, 2008There are probably many ways to plant a tree, but this method I learned from an experienced gardener. Her garden is about 1000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) and I think it’s at least 20 years old, so I guess she knows what she’s talking about. It’s even open for visitors on some occasions. I have [...]
How I Improved The Soil Of My Raised Beds
Thursday, September 4th, 2008If you want big healthy vegetables you need a good soil. The first year we grew vegetables in raised beds the soil was loose all right. We dug a rectangular hole below the raised bed wooden frame to a depth of 30 cm (12 inch) below the ground. This soil we put aside and started [...]
My Garden Layout In 2008
Monday, September 1st, 2008(Click picture to enlarge)
This is an overview of my garden as it looks in 2008. There are five beds of which two are raised beds. The remaining three beds are raised bed wannabes meaning that the width is the same as the raised beds 120 cm (47 inches) and the soil has been dug deep. [...]
Collecting Nutrients From The Soil
Monday, August 25th, 2008A few days ago this bed was planted with corn and peas, as you would see on my garden tour post, but as the bed was prepared late there was not much of a chance that those plants would produce much before harvest. So I gave up on them and cleared the soil in order [...]
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