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To: Pollard; Diana in Wisconsin; Augie
Pictures from the fall garden taken 11/15/2023.

Broccoli and lettuce growing under nylon insect netting. (I put gardening fabric over that if it goes below freezing and have some heating cable for pipes for a bit of protection.)

View up the tunnel. Maturity dates lengthen with decreasing winter sunlight. (Expected) I fertilized when these were planted and have been using a fish emulsion and kelp fertilizer every week, but I switched to Flower bloom Miracle Grow yesterday. (High P/K to induce flower head growth.)

Beds of garlic and multiplier onions and some shallots.. Chicken wire and 4" rabbit fencing laid on beds to discourage squirrels.


168 posted on 11/17/2023 8:40:08 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
I feel I would be accidentally stomping on a lot of plants in a garden like yours. Nice healthy looking plants though.

I've got some woven fence and need to make hoops like yours. I tried high tensile fence wire but it's droopy in between each wire hoop.

Just grabbed two different kinds of micro-sprinklers to try out.

Bowsmith Inverted Fan-jet - no moving parts - $1.55

Antelco Inverted Rotor Max Sprinkler - can be upright or inverted

Both do about a 17 foot circle so one of either will do the entire front yard garden but the Antelco comes in 5 packs($1.03 ea x 5).

Walked by my existing Denninger micro-sprinklers while they were running yesterday and 3 out of 5 weren't spinning. I have a 150 mesh filter but maybe I got dirt in the lines when assembling. Going to check the filter first. If it's clogged, it could be an overall lack of flow. If not, I'll have to pull the sprinklers off and check and clean them and also run the pump without them to flush the lines, then reinstall them.

Temperature's starting to drop so I guess I'll go do that and level tunnel frame #2 and concrete it in.

169 posted on 11/17/2023 10:07:10 AM PST by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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