00:03The first of June and this is the spare glitter that I have, only one of these was the supplier
00:08will have more in a few days and I have just put a little corner on it and just found
00:18these
00:20and it's old silicone but it seems to be okay. Hopefully it'll work and I'm just going to tie this
00:32up at whatever height and have a little bit of water all the way along and there's Zola in it
00:37and it's going to be in the greenhouse.
00:42It's Saturday June the 6th and I'm throwing in some little clippings of the side shoots of the tomatoes.
00:51I have water. I'm just going to show you how it works.
00:57So I have water that bubbles in down here. It's on a timer so it's not on all the time
01:05and also comes up and tips the silver.
01:10So we also get this.
01:14So we're getting very slow movement of water across and the water comes and goes under the Zola and provides
01:27the Zola with nutrients.
01:28And this is the Zola that was already doing fairly well and this is the Zola from the wood ash
01:40which doesn't really have, it had bad nutrition.
01:50And this is the Zola that was just growing on open water and it had better nutrition and it's also
01:57got some duckweed among it.
02:02And I planted the same amount per square centimetre of a Zola in both sides of this.
02:14So, but this Zola seems to be doing better than the Zola that came from the wood ash.
02:25And this may recover or it may get worse, I don't know.
02:30And the water comes out here and see I have these little pieces of plastic grid to stop the Zolas
02:43from merging into each other.
02:51And I have one of them here too, between the two Zolas and it's, the height here is, it will
03:02drip down on the ground and then underneath the soil here there's a channel.
03:08So, so the water will hopefully be watering the soil a little bit, but ultimately it comes back into this,
03:19there's a sump tank in here where it just gets recycled around again to the plants.
03:27It's the 14th of May and the water has just flowed in here.
03:32So, I've removed this from this, I decided not to concentrate in one little section, I moved a little, removed
03:42a little from the entire length.
03:44And I'm going to do the same at this side and then just weigh it and see there's where I
03:53removed it last time.
03:54So, I'm just going to remove, remove from the entire length some to give it, you know, this kind of
04:02look where there's a little bit of space for it to, for them to grow wider.
04:08And then I'm going to get the scales and just weigh it here too.
04:14So, I did the weighing and this is the harvest and this is what's left over to be harvested again
04:23next week.
04:28So, yeah, that's what we have, a little bit thin there.
04:34Actually, I got more from this side than from this side, but I may have just made a mistake and
04:39just harvested a bit more.
04:42But, anyway, we'll see.
04:43So, this is what it looks like.
04:45It's almost exactly the same amount as last week.
04:49A little bit shy of last week's.
04:52And this is what I have from last week.
04:54This is how it crumbled down.
04:56So, it's dried into this.
04:59And it's gone, I think, a little mouldy and it seems to be attracting ants a little bit.
05:04See, this is what it looks like.
05:05So, it's probably somewhat decent as a munch.
05:12And, yeah, I'll just continue on spreading it.
05:16And at this side, I'm going to put another one.
05:20Not quite as long because I don't have as long as a piece.
05:24But I'm going to put a piece at the back of this because there's only, like, shade, apparently.
05:32And, yeah, I'll just continue on doing what I'm doing here.
05:37I'll have more tomatoes in front of it soon.
05:42And just use this as the nitrogen source, the nitrate source for the greenhouse.
05:50And the nitrates are going to be mulch that will rot down and produce nitrates for the plants.
05:57So, yeah, this has, this is producing nitrates in the greenhouse, which is, I think, a good version of a
06:09circular economy.
06:10So, yeah, this is what I'm doing here.
06:26So, yeah, this is what I'm doing here.
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