Replies

The MO state nursery is about 35 miles away from me and starts taking orders on Sept 1st but the good stuff, anything human edible, goes quick.

On Sept 2nd, I managed to order 10 elderberry, 10 persimmon and 10 of 0 hazelnut. They allow you to order stuff that’s already gone so IF someone else cancels and had hazelnuts on their order, I might get 10 of them.

I wanted quite a few other types of seedlings but they were all out. Paw paw, Witch Hazel and 4-5 ______berry plants(beautyberry, chokeberry, serviceberry etc). I tried for the hazelnut anyway because having tree nuts in a few years would be cool.

They really need a bigger state nursery or more than one. Running out of stuff in 24 hours is ridiculous.

Automation update; Got a PLC and it's bricked or something. Even the IT/PLC guy at work couldn't do anything with it. It's on a boot screen and refuses to accept the downloading of a new operating system which is what it needs.

Bought a second one that still had a Aquafine Corporation company's automation program. Deleted all their data and display screens and put my own start up display screen on it, Little Bitty Acres. More display pages can be made. Typically, the start up screen would show for several seconds and then it would go to a status screen. Then there might be a menu to select one of several other screens to see more info or change settings etc.

At the bottom left is the junk one with stock faceplate. The blue one is the new one with a custom made faceplate by Unitronics for Aquafine Corporation. I'm going to swap faceplates to take it back to the stock Unitronics version.

For now, my first project will be to push a button on the PLC that will turn on the drip system for an hour and shut off. Then I might get fancy and have it do Pulse Watering aka Pulse Drip Irrigation as mentioned here not too long ago. I'll need to make the pump wiring goat proof before I can leave it out all the time which a pulse watering schedule would require. My little front yard garden is 15 foot from the house so the PLC can be in here. In the tunnel, the PLC will get installed in the door of a NEMA enclosure rated for outdoor use.