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#polytunnel

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Yvan

Right, some initial notes on these #RP2350 Melopero Perpetuo #LoRa boards: yvan.seth.id.au/melopero-perpe

Long story short: they work... I can make LEDs flash, that's the key thing... right? 😂 Can also read the internal temperature sensor and check battery status.

A few "bugs" in the examples and a slightly faulty board.

So far, so good... Next job is to get one of them transmitting the temp and battery status to the other. Will need to think about how to "package" that data for reliable tx/rx, probably need some redundancy, etc, maybe a buffer window of data. Then I need to dig out some of my various sensors and decide what to hook up to the "remote" to send to the local. The local will probably then relay data to a connected computer via the serial console I guess.

Project #Polytunnel Telemetry is GO! Well, if I can get a signal that far, otherwise this becomes project #Greenhouse Telemetry... the greenhouse is about 30 metres away, the polytunnel is a kilometre.

Yvan's Posts · Melopero Perpetuo First NotesSome notes about the Melopero Perpetuo LoRa board
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Yvan

Right, REPOST (with the right month and year, lol)

#allotment postcard done already! youtu.be/iyCxKCzIBYE

Because not much has happened this week! It is cold, everything is frozen. Whilst we certainly don't get as chilly as many do at this time of year, it's still enough to grind things to a halt when it happens.

What did happen this weekend is the CCTV in the #polytunnel caught us a Great Tit! Which inspired us to sort out some bird feeders for the plot.

So in this week's postcard we visit one of our local garden centres, buy and deploy bird feeders, and talk potatoes — what we're going to grow this year and where we buy them.

YouTubepostcard #3 — allotment CCTV Great Tit capture 🐦📸 Garden centre, bird feeders, 2025 potatoes 🥔By Postcards from our Allotment
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Yvan

When nipping out to go to the post office I noticed it was fairly still, so I grabbed the shitty little drone and managed to take some iffy #allotment photos without losing it (it tried to bugger off elsewhere a couple of times, as usual, bastard thing.)

For the uninitiated, our plots are the one with the biggest #polytunnel in the middle and the one next to it with the glassless #greenhouse frame adjacent to one end of the polytunnel... and lots of junk (current main work-in-progress).

No rain here so far today, but cold and drab outside, uninspiring weather - apparently rain or even snow tonight, I'd like a bit of snow... snow is fun.

For comparison here is where we were at in late October: toot.ale.gd/@yvan/113375010347

Overhead drone photo of allotment plots, two centred where the one below has a large polytunnel across the middle of it and the one above has a greenhouse frame to the middle-bottom, both are brown with dirt and woodchip, the half-depicted plot to the top is all green weeds, and the similarly half one to the bottom has a lot of black plastic weed fabric over it. To the right a trackway and weedy plot with a greenhouse to the top, to the left a ditch and then long grassy field.
Oblique angle shot of some allotment plots, to the centre right are our plots, the back one with the large polytunnel across the middle and three raised beds in front, and the foreground one which is a muddy and woodchippy work in progress with a glassless greenhouse frame centre and towards the polytunnel in the other plot. Various other plots surround in a long narrow strip of plots either side of a central track. To both edges a ditch, the left ditch has a row of trees/rough-hedge to the other side of it and then a green grassy field, the other side has a rough grassy/weedy field.
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Yvan

The one small #allotment job today was fitting this 4G CCTV camera inside the #polytunnel - so now we have PolyCam!

The camera is leftover work detritus, a ReoLink Go PT Plus, we got this so the warehouse would have a secondary CCTV option not reliant on site internet or power. It never actually got deployed (shit happened, per se). In the recent "Black Friday" times someone here pointed out a good deal on a 4G SIM* - so I decided to get that and dig out the camera.

The video attached was captured from home, so it's up and working well. I can now remotely watch our poor polytunnel seedlings get battered by the wind. Need to do something about polytunnel doors really.

Going to be interesting to see if the little solar panel it came with can really keep its battery topped up through winter.

* one-off £30 for 25 gigs of data per month until Feb 2027 on the Three network which has a pretty strong signal at the allotment site, it's back up to £60 now.

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Yvan

Righty, one storm*-delayed #allotment vlog! youtu.be/EEcSXiSMN44

This is our first year attempting overwintered greens in the #polytunnel and as with most things it was a bit of a late start for these. Shall be interesting to see what, if anything, works out from the 6 leaf crop varieties we're trying out in here. Left to right:

Pak Choi (Colour Crunch Mix)
Spinach (Mediana)
Mustard Greens (Giant Winter)
Nine Headed Bird (another mustard green)
Lambs' Lettuce
Chard (Bright Lights)

Alongside the garlic we popped in these beds as per last week's vlog, and the earlier sowings of carrots, coriander, dill, rashishes, celery seedlings, and a bonus volunteer wild rocket.

Bar far the most winter action the polytunnel has ever seen!

We also re-secure a wobbly Ume tree, and drop off gathered leaves for making Darlek leaf-mould.

* Storm Brian, and also storm-Yvan-mistyping-a-rm-and-deleting an hour's work!

YouTubevlog: overwinter leaf crops in the polytunnelBy KY Allotment
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Yvan

Re. earlier repost... today was well oorlich! The damp greyness certainly seeped all the way to my bones. Now on a couch under a blanket with the laptop warming me.

Rain and dark stopped play at #allotment. We really need to work on getting earlier starts now these so so short days are upon us.

The #polytunnel garlic is now in... 26x Kingsand Wight, 25x Picardy Wight, and 60x of the fattest "Wonky" bulbs. Not quite as many as I'd hoped to get in in total, but it brings us up to 243 garlics planted.

Started putting in the winter seedlings but as the temperature dropped a couple of degrees my glasses started steaming up and I couldn't see shit. Need to consider contacts again perhaps.

A view from one corner of a short polytunnel looking diagonally across to the far corner. Two wide mid tunnel bed have some seedlings at the ends and dark compost down the bulk of the bed, the centre of each bed is marked with a string line between two low stakes. There are two flowering marigold plants in each bed, in random locations. Down each side there is a narrow bed, the camera angle is wide enough to catch the length of the bed from the viewpoint to the other end, there are some leafy seedlings a single row in this bed. Across the path are more seedlings in trays. The paths are pale woodchip.
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Yvan

Couple of hours down the #allotment today with one job: #polytunnel clearance.

Job done!

That's one of the #compost bays topped up to the top again now too!

Slightly dodgy quality on the images as they're stills from video... some schmuck forgot to take photos.

Beds cleared barring a few things kept in (gotta enjoy those marigolds whilst they last!) Beds well watered, will be watered again tomorrow, then we plant overwintering crops.

A view down onto central polytunnel beds, they have tomato vines growing out trained up strings, and various smaller plants and yellow marigold flowers in them. The central path has a pile of thin timber on it.
View of a pair of central polytunnel beds, mainly clear barring a scattering of small flowering marigolds and a few lines of small plants growing at the bed ends.
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Arne

Cheap wooden #polytunnel
The first hoop is laminated, edges planed & routed and oiled.
The instructions of the glue say "not below 6°C". We have 7°C. The one done yesterday morning had to stay in the fixture all night and the glue still could have had some more time.
So instead of 2-3 hoops/day, I just get one done.
Found a nice spot for storage. 🙂

#gardening @gardening #DIY #GrowYourOwn #WoodenPolytunnel #HoopHouse

garage front with a wooden hoop hanging from a basket ball basket.
driveway with a fixture to bend and laminate wooden hoops for a polytunnel and a finished hoop on a table and supports
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Arne

Cheap #polytunnel
The fixture for the hoops is finished. As I didn't have any material for the steaming chamber lying around after the fail of the drainage tube, I've cut the battens in half. After putting them through a thicknesser, they are 10mm thick and bend well over the fixture.
Now I can laminate layers of battens.
I just have to use different lengths for the layers so the joints don't overlap.
~ (3m+3m+1.4m) (2.5m+2.4m+2.5) (1.4m+3m+3m) with outer layer slightly longer. #gardening #DIY

fixture to bend hoops made of battens and OSB board
batten cut in half along the length on a table saw
a batten clamped on a fixture to bend it
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Arne

@nettle 's partner and @suearcher basically figured out what the new #gardening project is about: I want to use very low grade timber from the hardware store, bend it, laminate it and make hoops for the next #polytunnel .
There is no prize, but congratulations you two!
The fixture for bending the wood is rather large unfortunately. So I'll have to disassemble it after the build.
To keep the wood off the ground, the hoops are fixed to flat steel bars in the ground.
I'll keep you posted.
#DIY

poor sketch of a simple polytunnel 4.7m wide
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Yvan

Hobbled about, trimmed some side shoots, crawled on the ground like a toddler and popped in some #polytunnel coriander and dill seeds. Kat did most of the harvest.

The polytunnel radishes planted a week or so ago are popping up.

Looked wistfully at the bits of greenhouse frame on the other #allotment plot.

Haven't had a sub-zero night in the polytunnel yet, min of 1.8 in that cold snap last week but has stayed in double digits since.

A wicker basket full of various shapes, sizes, and ripenesses of tomatoes.
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Yvan

Nipped down the #allotment, watered the #polytunnel, harvested some asparagus and salad leaves. Not a lot else done.

Funny how one asparagus plant is really gunning for it, three are slowly pootling along, another is just showing its first spear, and there's no sign of the other 5... hopefully they will do a thing (all 10 were OK last year, this is our first harvest year.)

An allotment bed with spears of asparagus growing in it, with a whole bunch in the foreground along with a knife in the ground and some other odd spears around the place.
A lettuce plant with a pile of removed leaves alongside it.
A large lush wild rocket plant.
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Yvan

So the fruit of today's localised travels is a sausage and mash dinner featuring local sausages from the garden centre.

A potato, celeriac and parsnip mash with plenty of parsley, all from the #allotment.

Sautéed allotment leeks.

And a salad of #polytunnel rocket, lettuce, and parsley — plus some shop tomatoes and spring onions.

An orange bowl with mash flecked with parsley in it, sausages in top, topped with sauteed leek. Alongside a large metal bowl of green leafy salad dotted with halved cherry tomatoes.
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Yvan

The #allotment #polytunnel is a bit parched, but not barren. I've poured several wateringcans of water over the beds today and we'll repeat this weekly to build up a bit more surface soil moisture - but it's not actually too bad under a couple of inches of dry surface compost.

There are some lush deep rooted parsley growing, a large wild rocket, and one lone lettuce. That's a salad right there!

The the two rows of allotment garlic are doing OK. I've cleared the parsley out overshadowing them.

A view inside a polytunnel - two wide central beds and two narrow beds up each side, paths covered in pale woodchip. Beds have some dead sticks of plants in them, several lush parsleys around the place, on the right side a large clump of rocket and a distant small (leaves picked off) lettuce plant. Up the centre of the left bed is two rows of small garlic plants. Other allotment paraphenalia around the place.
A lush clump of wild rocket up against the inside of a polytunnel.
A single small crinkly oakleaf style lettuce in a dry looking bed inside a polytunnel.
A low level photo looking up two rows of small garlic plants terminating into a lush bunch of parsley plants down the bed.
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Em-squared

Had a good day at the #polytunnel - very warm in there today (back to less spring-like weather tomorrow). Lots of seed sowing. Also disassembled two Ibc water tanks (thank you too-Tube) so they could be more easily moved so hopefully we'll make it to a 5 tank interconnected rain water storage system this year. #gardening

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