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Gardening For Freepers – PVC Drip Irrigation For The Home Garden
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| 3-9-09
| Red Devil 232
Posted on 03/09/2009 11:53:35 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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To: GatorGirl
Well, I didn’t mention the usual ‘freeze’ warnings because you are in FL.
It will be so much easier for you than it has been for me in CO!
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:23:24 PM PDT
by
elpinta
(Speachless!!!)
To: elpinta
Now, to the substance: I think my wife and I may do the raised-bed-drip-irrigation thing this year - Texas, especially South Central Texas, is just heck on gardens in the summer, and I do love my romas and peppers...
Colonel, USAFR
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:24:14 PM PDT
by
jagusafr
("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
To: Red_Devil 232
I was joshing you anyway! If I understood any of that I would think it was very nice too!! LOL~
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:25:13 PM PDT
by
GatorGirl
(Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation!)
To: elpinta
Yeah we froze four times this year! I sent a message voicing my displeasure to Al Gore. I was planning on global warming. Now I have had to cut back my dead hibiscus and allamanda!
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:25:56 PM PDT
by
GatorGirl
(Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation!)
To: GatorGirl
I spent about $20 for materials to add a hose faucet to the side of my house closest to the garden. I did the work myself, and have all the tools, etc. handy. It’s not hard at all if you have a little experience sweating copper pipe together.
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:25:57 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
To: Red_Devil 232
May I join your weekly garden ping?
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:29:51 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
To: Red_Devil 232
How crazy is this.
To: Red_Devil 232
Please add me to your gardening ping list. Thank you.
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:39:52 PM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:42:46 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
To: elpinta
I like the flex hose as well. it needs to be mulched to protect from uv rays. my early basil is up, (indoor greenhouse) and I will plant a few tomato seeds next week for early harvest. Here in central n y winter came early last fall...10/27 was our first snow. We have pretty much hit the wall for tolerance.
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:42:53 PM PDT
by
shotdog
To: Tijeras_Slim; Red_Devil 232; Gabz
IMHO, you are better to take 5 or 10 gallon water jugs planted upside down in the garden. You can add food to them as well, and they are not nearly as much trouble as drip hoses.
Hard water, hills, distance to the garden all work against drip hoses.
I guess if you plan on harvesting, and canning tons of food, it might be worth it, but we just do some tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and zucchini, and I hate tripping over the hoses all the time.
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:43:28 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(God, Bless America, please.)
To: martin_fierro
I don’t know, but I am going to try one this year, why not? Similar things work very well for flowers like impatients.
I had a HUGE garden last year, and got hit with some personal stuff that killed my time in the garden, and it all went to crap. I was so bummed. The pumpkins and watermelon were fine, but anything that didn’t overtake everything else, like the tomaotes and basil, really suffered. I tilled everything under, and planted grass.
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posted on
03/09/2009 12:43:55 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
To: Red_Devil 232; Tijeras_Slim
If you have hard water they can be a nightmare, the emitters or lazerline clogs up. OTOH I've heard (no personal experience here) that if you have a water softener, the chemicals in the water are no good for the plants.
To: Travis T. OJustice
Hey I here you! I had a nice garden going last year up until August and then a little health problem hit me that lasted until the end Sepetember. My wife could not keep up with her work, the garden and me. The only things that survived were the hot pepper plants (jalapeno, Cayenne and Serrano).
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:00:42 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Thanks for the fig newton & milk craving, by the way.
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:01:59 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
To: Red_Devil 232
dripdepot.com
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:02:17 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(You want me to buy heavy metal? Metallica?)
To: Red_Devil 232
Way back in the 80's I started using drip irrigators..they were the ones Burpee sold. I do not know if they still sell them, but I cannot say enough good about them. I had a regular plug-in light timer connected to a solenoid valve. I would work hard in Spring to set it up, then, using black mulch, I never did anything afterward but pick vegetables and eat them. As the season went on I had a very high density garden with embarassing surpluses of tomatoes, eggplant, squashes (winter and summer varieties) green beans, radishes, turnips, broccoli, sweet and hot peppers, and cucumbers. You can add an aspirator to the line and have it sip from a tank of Miracle Grow when it waters.
We had vegetarian friends who would come for the pool, and we would just open the garden gate and let them graze while we barbecued a steak, and everyone was happy.
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:05:16 PM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Roark, Architect.)
To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim
No hard water worries here. As for winter the PVC would be removed and stored for next season. Any clogs in the small holes of the PVC can be cleared by inserting a piece of wire.
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:08:58 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: martin_fierro
I use a Kinetico softener that treats the “inside” water, it uses potassium instead of sodium salt, the plants like it just fine.
For the price of potassium, there’s no way I would use it on the outside plants.
To: mad_as_he$$
That is what I mentioned in the original post - there are plenty of commercial kits and parts available on the Internet.
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posted on
03/09/2009 1:18:22 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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