Mulch: saving you water and weeding
Vegetable garden with mulch Up until this year, I have always rototilled my garden, sowed seeds in rows and then kept the soil bare, waiting for the seeds to grow. Every other ....
Fall rye as a cover crop
I have been battling bad soil in my garden for 14 years now and I ...
Quonset
Finished Quonset We needed indoor storage for the tractor, quad, ...
Updating pvoutput.org with solar output from eGauge
If you have solar panels, logging your generated data to pvoutput.org ...
Accurate hourly values of Global Horizontal Irradiance: not easy to find!
Global Horizontal Irradiance is the shortwave solar radiation that ...
Global Horizontal Irradiance data for Canada
Environment Canada publishes Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering ...
Solar panel micro generation in Alberta subsidizes electrical system.
I have 20 solar panels on my roof, and get about a 3% ROI on my ...
Backup sump pump
When you live in a neighbourhood with a name that includes the word ...
Building a sensory room
A sensory room stimulates the senses with lights and sounds It ...
Building a shed / outhouse
Finished outhouse/shed with composting toilet The first thing we ...
Verifying Solar pathfinder results
Here is the deck at 9:14. The sun had been creeping up to that table ...
Using Solar Pathfinder
To test the Solar PathFinder, I used it to calculate when my deck ...