2 baths on the table and 4 baths on the floor. Only way to propagate is to keep water about 25-50mm deep in the bath to stop the soil drying out. No other way here. Feed LAN every other watering to keep cuttings nourished

4 baths on the floor and 2 on the table. Trying to propagate cuttings.

Each cutting in an individual grow bag in the bath. Warered from bottom. I try to keep about 25mm of water in the bath because in this 40° heat the soil dries out in an hour or 2 and all your effort for nothing

Planted 3x custard apple trees about 1 year old, horse radish, Jerusalem Artichokes, wormwood, 2x Rosemary

Have 1 x canna edulus up, 2x turmeric up, 1x ginger up and 3 more horseradish up - these all in containers.

Bought 150 onion sets last week for R100 and planted them. I cut their leaves down to just above the junction and freeze them. This gives you the green onion tops. As the onions grow we cut the tops for our kitchen. Raw in salads or cook in food. Good flavour. The onion bulbs themselves are a bonus when matured for harvesting.

Same with sweet potatoes. Cut the greens to cook like cabbage/spinach. One 🍠 sweet potato can give you months of greens instead of just 1 tuber.

I planted about 15 potatoes and 2 sprouted bulbs of garlic this morning. Want to see how they do in this new bed in afternoon shade. Have been unsuccessful everywhere else in the garden.

Goat down. He was laying on his side cold. Brough him in the barn and got a heating pad on him. Think he got bloat. I hugged him until wife got back with the heating pad and some bloat med. He was really eager to eat. He burped a little and now i think hes just enjoying the warm pad.

Since this pic was taken, he's now standing but very unsteady. He's pooping a lot.... he's burping.... we're gunna leave him alone for a few hours.

Also, several years ago we bought a commercial double fridge for hte kitchen. Arctic Air brand. Made in china, sold from a company in Minnesota. It's 2-3/4 years old and has a freon leak. R290.... and it happens on thanksgiving weekend.... so we took a chest freezer we just got on FB marketplace and I fond an "inkbird" thermostat in my junk box... we now have a Freezerator to get us thru to next week when we can get an HVAC guy out.

I decided last night while we've got it all torn apart, I'll add a Shelly module to it with 5 temperature sensors and power measurement. From now on I'll trend it's run time and Hi and low side temperatures.

Randy weaver explains what happened at Ruby ridge.

Up and moving tgis morning.

While it looks like he is doing a good job, I think he may be forgetting the whole dampness and water thing. That CDX around the "foundation"? just will not hold up to what it will be exposed to.

This is an interesting peek into banking. Nothing new under the sun. If you want to see where the US (and EU) is heading, watch this. And realize that history may not repeat exactly but it rhymes.

Well today Mrs Johnkowski and I got all the perlins on the green house and all but one truss. Gunna rain like hell tonight and tomorrow so it's a shame we didn't get the footings for the end walls done today too. There's always Wednesday.

So word on the street is that Tesla Powerwall Gen 2 has some sort of battery issue. Note that they use the flammible type of LiCoManganese batteries like 18650s. So Tesla recalled them and discharged them into the grid down to a low SoC and turned them off. They'll be replaced under a warranty but many of these folks' installers are out of business and in the mean time they have no battery backup that they paid for.


This is why we home brew.

Oh and don't forget that Deye bricked a bunch of gray market inverters in North America because SolArk has the exclusive rights to Deye (rebranded) inverters in NA.

And EG4 inverters phone home to china if you use their wifi dongle. There are projects on GitHub to replace their wifi dongle with something that talks to Home Assistant.

Victron will always work on your local LAN or by bluetooth if you are in the same room with the system. Connecting to their mothership is optional and they are quite clear about that.

My SMA gear does not connect to the internet. I've had to jump through some hoops to get it talking to home assistant but it will not be shutdown by some remote party.

So home brew your own system... understand that often conveniences come with a risk.

Wife says there are two things about me that annoy her. First, she said I don't listen. And I don't remember what the other one was.