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HI!
I’m based in Berlin and have been building a few farms around in different places. (I will build one here in Berlin starting in December).At the moment I have a little problem! I will go quite soon to build a garden for a festival in Prague and here in Berlin the season has changed and the garden centers don’t have ny little plants for me!
Does anyone in or near to Berlin have any small plants to spare, sell, trade? Either just started small ones or established ones. This can be anything edible: herbs, small tomatos, strawberries… Or even flowers will do!
I don’t have time now to start my own before the exhibition! Help!Also any ideas of where I might be abel to find plants now would really be welcome!
Danke!
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: Jardin Suspendu, first couple days at Desert Numerique ’11 1 year, 10 months ago · View
I’m at the Desert Numerique festival in France this week and here is a link (ongoing, adding more photos daily) of the hanging garden (no windows) I’m building with Annemie Maes and Anna Allkaemper. more info on the festival: http://desert.numerique.free.fr/2011/ Our version is a bit more freestyle and since its outside, we control a lot less [...] -
Kyd C. commented on the blog post City Water 2 years, 1 month ago · View
What I mean to say is, I don’t think that plants necessarily want “clean” water in the same was as what we want to drink. But of course its important to think about what you feed your plants if you are planning on consuming them.
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post City Water 2 years, 1 month ago · View
AI think actually, the problem about city water might be much less in ‘underdeveloped’ parts of the world. I am working in Berlin and Dakar. In Berlin, the hard and clean until its nearly dead, city water is a big problem for all gardeners, in and out of soil (not to mention my hair). In [...]
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: WF at the World Social Forum, Dakar 2 years, 3 months ago · View
HI, here is a posting of a couple photos of window farms (jardin suspendu) at the WSF in Dakar. http://kydkyddakar.blogspot.com/2011/02/jardin-suspendu-travel-to-world-social.html check out the statistics of the WF site this week and next because I gave out the link a few thousand times already! I would really like to blog and keep you all updated every day, but [...] -
Kyd C. commented on the blog post Pumpless design 2 years, 3 months ago · View
hey this is great! What is the story with adding sand to the growing support? (we have sand in Dakar!) I am using coconut fibres (from the coconuts we eat here everyday), torn up and dusted as a root support, and I think it would be good to be a bit more dense, but it [...]
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post super pretty root covers, Dakar 2 years, 3 months ago · View
thanks for the kind feedback. Today I changed the wires for rope made of leftover fabric, more colour. We also thought about having a pump powered by people in the street, or the wind. Right now we are trying to make a pressured system that works and then we will see how people can interface [...]
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: super pretty root covers, Dakar 2 years, 3 months ago · View
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: updates and communications, Dakar 2 years, 3 months ago · View
The Dakar farm (jardin suspendu) is coming along great! We are almost all assembled as far as the columns go but still deep in the research with the pumps. Now we are focusing on muscle powered mechanics. More docu photos coming soon. I put together this webpage: http://www.frontierlab.org/jardinsuspendu as I needed to be a bit more [...]
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Kyd C. and samenrahmen are now friends 2 years, 3 months ago · View
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: Jardin Suspendu, Dakar – Photo updates 2 years, 3 months ago · View
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post bat guano, fish as nutrients? 2 years, 3 months ago · View
@ Paula – aquaponics! great! I will talk to some people here and see if its realistic to keep some fish. Would they need an air pump running contantly? Please do send me a link to the pdf. @ James – ye I didn’t think of actually tossing in fish parts, I thought more about [...]
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post Jardin Suspendu, Dakar building days 2 years, 3 months ago · View
@ paula – ye! I think these veggie sponges (“loofah” as I know the name) could work well. we came to use the tire valve (we took out the inside pins) because someone gave them to us and also because we couldn’t find any very small tubing, So really they are just like small tubes, [...]
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: bat guano, fish as nutrients? 2 years, 3 months ago · View
Here in Dakar are a lot of bats. I didn’t find out yet where they sleep but since there are definitely no caves in the city, I’m guessing it is in trees and on buildings. It may be possible for me to collect some bat guano and I wonder, before I start sniffing around in [...]
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post Jardin Suspendu, Dakar building days 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Hey, we just ended the second day. Fiou! Still a lot of work to do but its taking shape. It took a lot more time than planned, probably because its so much labour and we started right away with 4 columns. Also we have many many visitors and helpers and they were all very curious, [...]
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: Jardin Suspendu, Dakar building days 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Picasa web album (help, I wanted to embed the slideshow, any tips? We are now in the middle of a 2 day , open, public building session for our Jardin Suspendu (window/wall farm) in Dakar. Yesterday we collected materials, cut bottles, made diagrams, made innovations for connecting the bottles, made our columns, made some root baskets [...]
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Kyd C. commented on the blog post Preparing for a Wall Farm in Dakar Senegal 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Hey, wow, it is so great to get so much feedback! This week we collect materials and next Friday and Saturday we will start building. We met some gardeners from a women’s farming collective and they will help us out with advice for the plants. I was thinking to grow some kind of citronella to [...]
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Kyd C. wrote a new blog post: Preparing for a Wall Farm in Dakar Senegal 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Here in Dakar, I’m working with the artist collective L’Espace Timtimol , planning for a hanging garden on the inside and outside of the front garden wall. Following the “Bad Fruits” project by artist Pascal Nampémanla, that approached in an artistic way the problematic of plastic bottle trash, we have decided to take things a step further, getting practical. [...] -
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we didn’t have paint and tape on hand, but we have a lot of beautiful fabric to protect the roots!
How soon is soon? If you have about 4 weeks you could start with bens ”Zuckerschoten”. They sprout and grow quickly.