Carrots, lettuce and irrigation part 2
Nov. 22nd, 2009 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pinepigs_gardenWe went back to Mitre10 Mega and I've exchanged the too-big pieces I got yesterday with proper-sized ones. And I picked up more bits to finish the job.
And we have water folks! I have 4 sections of lines running through most the garden. I've got 2 sections I'll use a soaker hose on and one area I'll use a sprinkler, but I've hooked each section up and given it a test run. It works! I've got some areas where I've got sprinkler-riser stake thingies and they tend to do a bit of the pavement too but still, not too bad for a first go. I've done some tweaking of everything so it should be fine to go from now on.
I've also set up the 2nd hose and attached it so I can run 2 sets at a time. I can give everything a very thorough watering in maybe 80 to 90 minutes (at 20 minutes each run for a good soak), where before I could only cover all in about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. And these will be more thorough waterings where as sometimes I don't do as good a job with the holding the hose.
Look! I picked carrots and lettuce today:
Those are rainbow carrots and the round ones are parmex carrots. I'll be rotating the carrots out of the containers they are in as I've had them in there for about a year and I bought some beans to put in instead. There's a cool purple and a red mottled one I found some (non-GE) seeds for yesterday when we were at Mitre10.
And now I am going to dash. I'm exhausted and need to do dinner. I want to do a post soon about garden gifts since we're coming up to Christmas.
And we have water folks! I have 4 sections of lines running through most the garden. I've got 2 sections I'll use a soaker hose on and one area I'll use a sprinkler, but I've hooked each section up and given it a test run. It works! I've got some areas where I've got sprinkler-riser stake thingies and they tend to do a bit of the pavement too but still, not too bad for a first go. I've done some tweaking of everything so it should be fine to go from now on.
I've also set up the 2nd hose and attached it so I can run 2 sets at a time. I can give everything a very thorough watering in maybe 80 to 90 minutes (at 20 minutes each run for a good soak), where before I could only cover all in about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. And these will be more thorough waterings where as sometimes I don't do as good a job with the holding the hose.
Look! I picked carrots and lettuce today:
Those are rainbow carrots and the round ones are parmex carrots. I'll be rotating the carrots out of the containers they are in as I've had them in there for about a year and I bought some beans to put in instead. There's a cool purple and a red mottled one I found some (non-GE) seeds for yesterday when we were at Mitre10.
And now I am going to dash. I'm exhausted and need to do dinner. I want to do a post soon about garden gifts since we're coming up to Christmas.