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• Trekked/Climbed around the 50km coast of Gozo in exactly 12 hours of non-stop walking with Mike D #
• The Swedes (mentioned before) bought me a freediving speargun. Thanks!! #
• Latest freediving blog/pics :http://emotioned.com/?p=334 #

My thoughts on Freediving

Freediving is exactly that, diving for free. But it doesn’t just stop there, it’s both a sport and a passion for many people. I love the feeling of swimming into the blue with nothing but a pair of fins, mask (…swimsuit). The learning curve may be high if your aiming for diving deep ,but the payoff of discovering another world with your own lung capacity and mental training is big. It’s all about looking down into that deep blue world from the surface, excited, but at the same time concentrating on your breathing. When you’re ready, when you are confident you’ve got enough air in you to dive, you  head first into the the deep… the exciting part has just began, you’re on you own now, in a meditative trance, you’re focused on going deeper while keeping an eye on things below you,  A massive ship that appears out of the blue on descent at 30 meters can give you a shocking feeling, a straight (up and down) dive, or a first time dive in an underwater cave or tunnel; it’s always interesting no matter what you are free diving for.

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• Freediving with Daniel Hansson,Eric, Dan and Stina. Couchsurfing sweeds – it's been eye opening #
• Self Watering Container vegetable gardening at home, http://www.emotioned.com #
• The house can get really messy when I have 6 guests, a girlfriend and a dog sleeping there for a week! #
• Broke my freediving record (by a bit)! drove 25 meters and touched the P29 on a single breath. #

Creating the self-watering garden container, AKA Earthbox:

With a self-watering garden container you won’t have to water the plants as much. Just fill the reservoir with water and it will be wicked up through soil-filled pond filter to your plants’ roots. In theory, it should maintain the optimum moisture in the soil, save water, and make container gardening (indoors and out) really low-maintenance. I’ve also included some tips on how many plants you can grow in the same pot depending on their type! Enjoy

Things you’ll need to make your self watering container

Prepare to saw the garden pot right down to the center of the bottom section

Example : Garden Pot is cut

Fitting the Garden pot

Mark the self watering garden container

Hold the rim of the garden pot in marked position, and turn it face down

Cut the circle, place the pot in the container, and the pond filter into the circle

Cut off the extra overlap in the rim

Image: Self-Watering Garden Container, Cut off rim

Insert the rubber pipe into the a hole in the pot, to reach the water reservoir

Drill an overflow hole

Drink a beer, you’re done

Which Crop to Grow

Most veg that grows in a backyard will do well as a container plants.  Carrots, Cucumber, Green beans, Lettuce, Parsley, Pepper, Radishes, Spinach & tomatoes are amongst the most popular

Fertilization

Conatiner plants need to be fertilized more then field-grown plants because they have less soil to provide the nutrients they need. A soluble fertilizer applied once a week is recommended while watering. I suggest using a 15-30-15 oe 20-20-20

Growing Tomatos

1. Dont crowd the seedling, give them room to branch out.
2. Provide lots of light. luckly for me I live in Malta, if you live in a location that lacks light you may consider having growing lights running at 14-18 hours at a time.
3. put a fan on you seedlings, I thought that this whould not work but it did. To develop strong stems you’ll need to train them, provide a breeze for a couple of minutes a day
4. Preheat the soil, more heat means that you’ll harvest sooner
5. Once at 3 inch high. remove bottom leavs, so the plant will grow faster
6. romove the suckers that develop at the joint of the plant – they just take the energy away
7. Water them regularly when plants are developing. Also, feed the tomatos a lot more once they are blossoming

Pot Size

Container Size for vegetables