Teljkon McCoy

So im trying to get my irrigation up and runing I have a decent size yard in the southern united states. Problem is i have no steady supply of water for it so planting is near impossible. If im not irrigating  it turns to sand.

Long story short I have a old decrepid water pump that im preatty certain is not working any more. At first it was thought that the pump was not geting charged because there was no back flow valve between the pump and water source so a back flow valve latter.

Im noticing as im hose charging the pump one of the heads coming on but the others hardly giving a dribble. between this head and the other heads is what i think is a zone splitter. At first I thought that the head between the zone splitter and the pump was stealing the charge as it was operating at full pressure. But once i cut the hose off to stop the manual charge of the pump the head was no longer operating. So my line of thinking is that if the pump is runing and is not pulling from the water source then the pumps not working.Is this the correct line of thinking I know jack and all about water pumps and irrigation systems so any help would be greate.   

I would suggest mushrooms. Oyster, shitakes, and morel all take well to wood. And the mushrooms will speed up decomposition while producing a viable crop.

hey try these guys found them to be easy to contact and very helpfull.

http://www.fnps.org/

Thanks for the tip do you think that is because your soil to on the rhizobiom for the beans or because your beans became accustomed to the native rhizobium???

I asked the local plant groups FNPS ( florida native plant society) if they know a native southeast floridean based legume that is fast growing and suitable to use as  green fert that will work with the natural rhizobium any one have any ideas of a local i could use to replace any of the layers of permi culture. Ie, ground cover, shrub, or tree.

I think the real numbers are that thier are no real numbers to be had on this group those that have the amount of land to give you the data are most likley not tracking it well enough for it to be of use.

That said you may have to ask/pay for your numbers from a institute like the one that made the video that i learned from. Or you may need to hire a institute to actually take the numbers. You may be able to make a trade arangment.

I will pay for the computer software scales etc to take the numbers if you will take them.

I am just getting into this my self and am not a hippie actually [size=10pt]alot of times the heavy hippie attitude of the commercial world is evile makes me gag too[/size].

But no reason to get angry. You simply have more obsticals to over come than you thought  dont give up the world need entrapenures like your self and I to make it change my current goal to save the dying art of the Toji. 


This is the institute in auz he also has a forum connected to his site.
http://permaculture.org.au/

answered one of my own question found a good artical on rhizobium. I also failed to make a general appeal to other south east florida permies for tips and tricks for how to make this work in our hot climate. 

well i cant help you exactly but i do live in south florida so if you happen to need a scout at any time let know. I would even bee intrested in cultivating it.

well aint that  a pisser i wrote a whole post and lost it as the pictures were too long. The area i live in is very dry to give you a idea of how dry this is the natural land scape for the area.

http://www.pbcgov.com/erm/natural/natural-areas/hypoluxo-scrub/photos.htm

since i cant show a picture il discribe the area its a small area on the back of the house thats about 4 feet by 17 feet. it is bordered by wood and has a rock path and pavers all around it just to the other side is another mulched bed with a trellace esk thing that was orinally for a hammock that has sence found its way to the garbage heap.  I want to do the lasagna style but I dont really think i need to drop alot of cardboard as the area is basically dead a few weeds etc but all in all its almost all sand not soil and nothing wants to live in it. Im going to go light on the newspaper where the weeds are but i just want to drop in cow dung with hay on top and start the legumes going.

I am using this video as a guide as i have recived a free copy

http://transitionculture.org/2009/02/11/film-review-%E2%80%9Cestablishing-a-food-forest-the-permaculture-way-series/

But i have a few questions.? in the video he dips his ground cover legumes in some sort of mold growth agent that is saposed to help start the nodes that do nitrogen conversion what is the name of this stuff and doo i need  certain type for certain plants.

My plan is to start with perinal penuts pigeon peas and moringa olofiera. This is what i am confused on when is it that you should drop in your none legume vegies as im not looking to plant fruit trees . The only plant i want to put in that fruits is my passioflora edualis plant that will only root on this side as it will grow over a trellace esq thing via bridge from this bed to the other.I want to tree the moringa olofirea but all the rest i would happily chop and drop even though i would like to get some of the food yield from them. Also any suggtestion on a ground cover the has a higher food yield thant perenial penut.

as the climate should be about the same this would be a good working template no.

im a complete noob so I really dont have a clue about any thing but if i was going to do permaculture in a hot arid area i would want to see this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgWcD-1Nw&feature=related