Tag: global heating

• Ligaya Gardening Tips #9 Changing tactics for watering

  

  As the climate warms, rain patterns are changing. That means more opportunities for gardeners to adapt their watering tactics.

  ligayagardener

  July 31, 2021

  Gardening, Water

  climate change, Gardening, global heating, Ligaya gardening tips, microbes, mulch, rain, runoff, soil, spring, stormwater, Sustainability, Watering, winter

• Furl the sails

  

  It looks like it’s time to furl the sails for the cool weather. We only have a narrow back yard, just on 4 metres and it bakes in Summer. So I put up some posts and washing line cable and made 4 sails of shadecloth that we can rollout in Summer and back again in…

  ligayagardener

  April 8, 2021

  DIY, Gardening, global heating, Heating/Cooling

  adaptation, climate change, cooling, global heating, global weirding, shade

• Squeezing in a bit more water storage

  

  A modification to the DIY first flush diverters means that we can store more water in a big downpour.

  ligayagardener

  February 18, 2021

  DIY, global heating, Water

  DIY, global heating, myo, pvc, rain water, rainwater rainwater harvesting

• Adapting to bushfire season

  

  I was worried about the permanent shade cloth catching embers so I’m replacing a lot of it with market-style umbrellas.

  ligayagardener

  January 14, 2020

  DIY, Gardening

  climate adaptation, climate change, Gardening, global heating, shade, shadecloth, summer