This Sustainable House

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Well the weather has been getting cooler and already the greenhouse is begining to show some promise. A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon taking root cuttings of some Bocking 14 Comfrey. Bocking 14 is a special cultivar of comfrey, developed at the Henry Doubleday Institute, which doesn’t produce viable seed. It was chosen for TSH to reduce the weed risk associated with this plant.

Anyhow, the root cuttings were planted into some super tree tubes, and then placed into the greenhouse under the automatic misters. Today, the signs of life are more than evident…

Check out the video below for more information.

One of this weekends task’s was to begin setting up the greenhouse. One of the first things I needed to do was to setup a couple of propagation tables with irrigation system. The irrigation system is attached to a automatic timer ensuring that the system turns on, and off, regularly throughout the day without supervision.

The video below details the system…