How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

Margie picked the first blueberries off our new bushes. We had a wind storm blow through last night. It knocked down some of my sweet corn, and blew melon and cucumber vines around. A few cucumbers and the first tomato of the season.

 

[TomSeller]

Margie picked the first blueberries off our new bushes. We had a wind storm blow through last night. It knocked down some of my sweet corn, and blew melon and cucumber vines around. A few cucumbers and the first tomato of the season.

Do you buy your soaker hose from a commercial source and what pressure do you run it at? I have an artesian well that puts out huge volumes at less than 10psi and works really well for a slow soak.

 

[Larro Darro]

Do you buy your soaker hose from a commercial source and what pressure do you run it at? I have an artesian well that puts out huge volumes at less than 10psi and works really well for a slow soak.

I'm using the black soaker hoses, not the a drip system. I should buy it in bulk, but I just get the 75' hoses from Lowe's. When possible, I cut them down to fit the row. But for peas and corn I just run them up one row and down the next, hooking more than one hose together. I use plastic inline valves between hoses because they all don't have the same soaker rate. As far as PSI, I don't know what I'm running. I adjust each spigot to where there is enough pressure for four hoses, then use the valves on the quad-splitter to fine tune it. In past years I would use very low pressure and leave it on all the time. This year I'm using more water for two and three hours every two to three days. I have found that the 5/16" works better than the 1/2" when cutting and plugging. I'm using some of the old hoses that have leaks for the grapevines and blueberry bushes. After a few years they always have leaks.

 

[Larro Darro]

It was an early day at work for me, so I didn't have much time in the garden this morning. I put the sprinklers on the melons and cucumbers early, before the sun was hot and the humidity was still high. Then got everything else watered, including the new plants.




The field corn is tasseling now. And there was a bloom on one of the {8"} mini sweet pepper plants. I got more posts and stakes drove, and tied up all the tomatoes but the ones I had planted a couple of days ago. I used a 1/64th drill bit to turn a cheap garden hose into a drip irrigation system. It worked pretty good except for the last hole. Since it was flowing up hill, I turned it around. It worked better, but all the holes didn't line up perfect then. Luckily the plants are in pots. It won't take but a few minutes to get them straightened out when I have time.

 

[lakngulf]

Was gone on a trip for a few days and came home to find these ready to pick. My daughter and grandson picked about this much just a few days before. Great to enter the harvest season. Fresh Veggies are fine!



This is where we visited. An amazing art handiwork in macro!

 

[Larro Darro]

Great view, Milton.

Margie picked the first Bell and Jalapeno peppers this morning. She is planning a salad with everything but the onions from the garden. {Cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and peppers} And it shouldn't be too long on the onions.

 

[farmer2009]

Well the garden is white capping. So just maybe this sun and wind will dry it out enough for it to be tilled and planted tonight.

 

[Larro Darro]

Well the garden is white capping. So just maybe this sun and wind will dry it out enough for it to be tilled and planted tonight.

Make sure you wear you wear your flotation device

 

[farmer2009]

Make sure you wear you wear your flotation device

I knew someone would go there. Just thought it would take longer. .

 

[TomSeller]

I have a garden on one of my remote properties that grows cabbage for kraut and broccoli real well. Two weeks ago I transplanted 140 late sprouts and put a timer on for irrigation. I went there yesterday and 138 of them had been eaten down to nothing. Getting a little late in the season but I planted about 50 more today that I will transplant at a different location. I hope I get enough cabbage for this season's kraut. I think it was mice.