Violet Madder<p>One thing I definitely want to try, is cultivating live sphagnum moss! </p><p>It grows slowly, but it's very useful stuff even before it's broken down into peat (which takes years and years).</p><p>It likes very soft acidic water though, so the 8.2 pH & 320ppm GH stuff out of the tap here is probably not suitable.</p><p>I'm also very curious about harvesting condensation from the inside surfaces of a greenhouse, to use as a source of more or less distilled water.</p><p>RO systems use up a lot of salts etc and don't seem like a very sustainable long term solution. I haven't looked into it deeply though. I have next to $0 budget so that sort of thing is right out.</p><p>Sadly most of the places selling live sphagnum have no idea what species they're using, which bugs me.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sphagnum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sphagnum</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liveSphagnum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liveSphagnum</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sphagnumMoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sphagnumMoss</span></a></p>