YvanMay 30

Well, looks like I have not one but TWO long-planned #solar projects progressed today.

As well as fiddling with panels for the home-office solar & ordering an EcoFlow unit to connect them to, I've also deployed a solar panel inside the #allotment polytunnel to connect to a couple of car batteries. The cheap solar charger unit I had lying around for this might be a bit knackered though, it was behaving a bit weirdly, but maybe that's because I didn't have a battery connected. (I have ordered battery clamps to get those connected too.)

This panel is kinda facing mostly the wrong way at the moment, and is inside the polytunnel... I'll probably prop it up to face a better angle, but it only has to maintain the batteries which are only going to have some basic microcontroller electronics on them, a few solenoids, and maybe a 12V pump (though I only intend to run the pump daytime when there is sufficient solar supply.)

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On more plant related #allotment matters we also got some somewhat overdue sweetcorn, tomatillos, and zucchinis planted. So that's a bit more progress at least. I started this year thinking I was going to be on top of things, ahead of things even... reality laughed in my face on that it seems. What happened. Where did the time go? I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.

Grow little plants... grow... we'll plant some of your stressed out little buddies tomorrow.

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A result of my general uselessness is that we now seem to be cultivating our own parsnip and celeriac seeds. I think I'll actually just leave these to do their thing on that front, it's kinda fun. Though probably we should do something better with the bed space really.

#allotment #gyo

Show threadLaurenMay 30

@yvan You could keep some and chop and drop the rest? My neighbour always lets a couple of his parsnips go to seed and he swaps me the seed, they seem to germinate better than shop bought stuff

And you're definitely not useless. The pics you've posted of your plot so far look fab

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@laurenheywood yeah, that could be a good plan for the flowering things... for the celeriac it's just one row I left semi-on-purpose, but he parsnips are a whole massive patch probably now taking up nearly 2 metres of a raised bed. It would be cool to have my own parsnip seed for next year. Whilst it isn't quite too late I guess, I've not got any parsnips in so far this year (I chitted seeds, but didn't keep up, they dried out and died, sigh.)

Things are kinda coming along, and some bits look good, and it'll be OK... but the poor dead seedlings would probably think I'm a bit useless, if they could think, and weren't dead. I feel their judgement from the plant-afterlife. 😅

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@yvan pollinators adore parsnips