Do THIS to your Fruit Trees in the Spring for a HUGE Harvest

I’m posting this video a little ahead of the season but it will help you hit the ground running. In a time of pandemic, we need to do all we can to ensure our food security and get a bigger harvest, so it’s no time to neglect your fruit trees. If anything it’s a time to planting more of them in your yard. Every year I spend a little extra time doing a simple maintenance task for my fruit trees and it not only makes the fruit a lot bigger, it reduces insect pests and produces more perfect fruit. Some people scoff at thinning fruit trees because they think it’s too much work, but it can make a huge difference in the harvest and in controlling insect pests and disease.

Earthen Floor Destroyed and Rebuilt, Start to Finish | Almost No Talking

I already posted a few videos of this process, but this is the whole process in one video with no explanation, just showing the process. This includes footage not seen in the other videos. This is more like infotainment.

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Finishing My Earthen Floor Redo | Resurfacing and Protecting

This is the final installment of my earthen floor redo. In this video we see how the final floor turned out. I reused the old floor material for most of the floor, but for this last surface layer mixed up a whole new batch of fresh plaster. Once the layer dried thoroughly I applied linseed oil.

Linseed oil will act as a protector because the oil can dry and solidify, making a traffic proof smooth floor for everyday living. If you do it right, you will have a surface that you can walk on and use like you would any other hard floor, but it has the feel of something softer, like cork.

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Redoing An Earthen Floor | Part 2 Perlite Insulation

Redoing my earthen floor was a major project last fall. But the great thing about natural building is that you just add water to the old floor material and use it to make the new one. But this was still quite a project. Last video I discovered that my light clay straw insulation had disintegrated and turned to compost, so this time I insulated with perlite.

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What I Found When I Tore Up My Earthen Floor: It’s Not What I Thought

I had such high ideals and hopes for my earthen floor being a badge of honor in not using any non natural materials in my house. I originally insulated it with light clay straw because I wanted to use a natural material. In my opinion, my earthen floor has ended up being the only mistake I made in my strawbale house. It has served fine, but it’s always been sinking, leading to cracks and ruts and the need for maintenance. I didn’t know why my floor was sinking, though I had my suspicions.

In this video we find out what was going on under all that cob, and we begin a series of videos showing the process of totally redoing my earthen floor. It’s a big project and it took some time, but one of the great things about cob is it’s ability to be reused. Being able to just add water to the old floor material and relay it saved an astronomical amount of time.

To see the videos I refer to in the end of this video, click the links below.

Japanology Plus on earthen plaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10R60bMjorw

Early video on design details of my tiny house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4rlp7DIC7M&t=831s

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