Author Archives: Brian Gallimore

Travel Safety

When you are away from home, staying in a hotel: remember, everyone walking by your room during the day while you are gone might just come in and take anything they want because the door was left ajar, unlatched, and … Continue reading

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Composting Worms

Heather Rinaldi, owner of the Texas Worm Ranch (www.txwormranch.com), taught a great interactive vermicomposting class this past weekend.  The event was hosted by the Dallas Backyard Vegetable Gardeners, which I’ve already learned a lot from.  Heather has been an organic … Continue reading

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Garden Update – March 1, 2011

I transplanted my 16 tomato seedlings into bigger pots (free pots made from newspaper)  They are all doing very well, some of them are a little bigger than others.  It looked like some of them were being shaded by nearby … Continue reading

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With one of these…

I briefly visited a ‘preparedness 101’ fair at a LDS church in Plano earlier today.  They had several tables set up with different themes about being prepared.  As I was looking at and talking about the items on the ‘things other … Continue reading

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Finishing up the Aquaponics Install

I love drilling holes in nice things.  This was my first time to use an abrasive hole saw, and it was an impressive experience, went right through the brick and mortar wall.  I installed a large waterproof junction box with some cable … Continue reading

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First Seedlings Planted

I spent $5 at Home depot on 12 seedlings this afternoon.  (4 broccoli and 8 lettuce)  I planted half of them in the aquaponics growbed and the other half a raised bed.  I added some seaweed based liquid fertilizer to … Continue reading

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Aquaponics Drain Version 2

I made lots of progress on the aquaponics system today.  I found some native gravel that I think will work OK.  It has lots of different shapes, some smooth, some rough, and in general the size is between 1/2″ and … Continue reading

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Progress of Seedlings

Most of the seedlings are doing great.  A handful of them are questionable from the last batch of pepper seeds.  I was wondering if they were going to live in the freezing cold garage, but they did.  Since today was … Continue reading

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Aquaponics Growbed is ready for rocks

The growbed is ready to be moved into position and filled with rock.  Tuesday night, I installed 1″ foam insulation board on the inside surfaces.  This changed the dimensions to 36″ x 91″ x 12″.  (area: 22.75 square feet or … Continue reading

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Red Green taught me how to use duct tape

Bryson used duct tape for the first time tonight. It was a beautiful moment.  I hope he understands the importance of Red Green when he meets him tomorrow.

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