Posted on 04/04/2020 9:15:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I figured that it would dry out.
We go on vacation for a couple weeks every summer.
I can’t do anything about the watering.
I did google cinder block gardens and someone had a picture of the blocks with the hoops in them for covered gardens, for the floating row covers. I thought that was a great idea.
You could do a little custom drip thingie on a timer...
I have seen some gardeners who custom rig their irrigation all the time. I’m too afraid of goofing it up but really, how hard can it be? I have a kit that I’ve been too chicken to mess with for years. I’ll have to try and set it up this year.
I put little Harbor Freight soaker hoses all over the place last year and it really made a major difference. I wish I’d done it years ago but was never good at gardening so figured it would be a waste of money.
That pix of ‘Joy Ann’ has me singing: “The shrimp boats are on the way, they’re heading into the bay!”
No idea where that’s from. Random junk in my head, LOL!
Had to be nosy, so I found a few videos of the exterior of Carson Mansion, but none of the interior.
I’m assuming you can tour it?
Mr. mm could manage something like that with no trouble.
Me?
I’m in your camp, except that I’m pretty good at growing things from lots of practice.
The weather here in Central Missouri is trying to straighten up, but Mother Nature just can’t seem to get shed of her crabby attitude.
It was *almost* dry enough to get on the garden with the tiller, so of course, we got more rain. And temps in the low 30°s for a little extra slap in the face.
I did manage to cut the grass before it rained, so my yard no longer has the appearance of a goat pasture.
I have green salad coming up in the cold frame.
Brought a load of firewood home from the sawmill yesterday and unloaded it. The older I get the better I like propane.
Taking Mrs. Augie to the woods later today to look for morels.
What is good rot proof or rot resistant material for the sides that wouldn’t break the bank?
You don't necessarily have to contain your raised beds.
You could start off by just hilling the soil up into a terrace and planting on top of that. Doing that you can prove/disprove your concept without spending any $$$ just some elbow grease.
You instant bonsai is very clever......just so imaginative and so close to the real thing.
A segment on the Japanese channel showed the emperor's vast array of centuries-old bonsai.
When guests come to the palace, they have gardeners bring in a prized specimen for the guest's enjoyment.
Your bonsai would pass the emperor's test, I'm sure.
It is not open to the public but if you have a friend who is a member he can give you a tour
I’m surprised! That would be a real money maker for the town. I did watch a drone fly-over video of the house and the adjoining Marina. So pretty!
Reminded me of my time in San Diego. Man, I LOVED that Coronado Bay Bridge drive and took it as often as I could...like when I had money for gas, LOL! (1980-’82)
Someone corrected me. Dill is not tomato friendly.
https://waldenlabs.com/the-ultimate-companion-planting-guide-chart/#dill
This is a good reference that they provided me.
thanks, will have to look for something else to keep the tomatoe bugs down then-
I am in a similar situation as you.
I have gotten big plastic barrels, tapped them with small faucet bear bottom, ran gravity fed small drip irrigation lines into green house and into some raised bed gardens.
Put electronic timers on all lines.
The raised beds are actually crates....we had terrible rabbit problems last year and I had to get everything up off the ground.
This year ai am chicken wire fencing all around my garden to keep the rabbits out.
I am going to fill the entire garden with wood chips and let that be the mulch.
I used to do it that way years ago. It works great and do not let anyone try to tell you that it is bad for trees or soil....it is nature’s way.
But short term solution was finding free barrels, buying drip irrigation stuff....and free wooden crates from the industrial areas near me.
That system allowed me to go on vacation I august for 10 days and return to a thriving garden without relying on paying some teenager to water my stuff.
That link is a great resource. Has list if companion and foe plants
Wife reports lettuce coming up, snow peas thinking about it
Carolina jasmine has fantastic display
Redbud is in full Bloom
Spring is here in force
thanks, checking it out now :)
I’m East Ctrl and was able to till this past week but you know how it is in the Ozarks. I’ve seen my neighbor 6 miles away,(2 miles as the crow flies) get an inch of rain while we got none. We had a few light sprinkles and some fog/mist in the past 24 hrs. I’ll be sowing lettuce, greens and brassica seeds today or tomorrow. Got a couple of 80 degree days coming up so that might help you. I didn’t till very deep. 4 inches max. Deep rooted stuff is going in a spot that’s been cultivated before. I did the double digging thing a few years ago there and I’ve got close to a foot of top soil in my garden area. Rest of the property is rocky and hilly. Took us two years to find a small property with South facing elevation and a pretty flat spot big enough for a decent size garden that wasn’t too far out in the boonies.
Finished my eight corner brace post holes, by hand. I did the actual corner posts and all gate posts last winter so they’re settled and solid. That clay was just a wee bit sticky this past week and one hole had standing water in it. I layered pea sized gravel and dirt when I tamped the posts in.
I still should have a couple of h-braces in the middle of a couple of long runs but it will have to wait. I just won’t tighten up the wires too much. It’s high tensile electric and the only thing it will be keeping in for now will be an LGD and he’s already trained to the same fence in an 80x80 area. When I start bringing goats in, they’ll go in that pen for a few days so they learn the fence. The fence charger I got puts out 7-9,000 volts and when they’re being trained, I’ll only have that pen hooked up. I’ve already taken a reading and it was the full 9,000 volts for the pen. Charger’s rated for 30 miles of wire or 100 acres. I have 2.25 miles of wire around 12 acres. So yeah, I can get away with low tension for a while. Just enough to keep it from sagging. I can tighten the bottom one pretty well. The beauty of the high tensile is that posts can be spaced from 40-100 foot apart depending on terrain. With 3250 foot perimeter, I sure wouldn’t want to be digging or pounding in 300ish posts in this rocky clay.
How to make a cheap bonsai from nursery material - Peter Chan
I later found two types of moss (argentum sidewalk moss and sphagnum) growing locally that I picked up and put in the pot as well as a bit of coral sedum I found on the floor at Home Cheapo.
You can see a wilted leaf of a golden Creeping Jenny I stuck in there too... it will probably root and bounce right back, those things are hard to kill!
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