My latest forecast says 30 for tonight, but I'll get updates all day today. I hope that moves up so I don't have to cover containers out there because it is a lot now. I'll hold off planting the onions until tomorrow as I won't have low temps past tonight for at least a week more and I don't have the forecast past a week.
The engineer has to come to this area March 16 and he gets the job of placing all the containers in some kind of order out there as I'll have even more containers by then. I hardly have any room to walk out there. I see no point in my dragging containers around before I get them all out there.
He said for me to make a plan about placement and he would move them. Make a plan, sure, easy for him to say. I know the mind set of engineers, and he will scrap my plan if I make one. He is so analytical like engineers are, he'll likely measure the whole area, measure every container, then draw it with every container in a definite spot and tack the result out there for me to refer to if I should move a pot so I can put it back exactly according to the diagram. He has done that twice with other things around here.
Just to freak him out, I think I'll get a piece of paper and draw a square and fill it totally up with little squares in no order at all, and tell him that is my plan.
That is evil.
We finally got a dusting of ice pellets, but no rain. And even the ice pellets have stopped. I really need that moisture.
/johnny
I think JRandom, and I need to move our rain barrels to your house.
Marcella, on the smart pots, I have a little rectangular storage tub with handles. I fill it up from my big bags of soil, which are on an elevated surface( my garden cart), so I'm basically just knocking soil into the tub below, then I carry it over to my smart pots..It's very manageable.
I also like that the smart pots are made in our Next Door Neigbor, Oklahoma. I buy them from my locally owned Mom and Pop nursery. I wrote to ask if the flood tray liners for hydroponics could be used as a liner for square foot gardening..That looks like it would be really easy.
Okay, if you ever get your cucumbers going, and decide to resort to a life of crime:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3128697/posts