The irrigation system is in. For the container plants on the patio, we have a Rainbird drip irrigation system. The smaller plants are on 1 GPH emitters while the larger ones are on 2 GPH emitters. (We ran the system this morning for 20 minutes - and twenty minutes is too long. Every plant had water in its tray. We dumped out the pepper plants' trays so that they won't drown.)
The squash are on a 25 foot length of weeper hose and the ornamental garden is on a 50 foot length of soaker hose. These two hoses are joined by a length of plain hose, and the weeper hose is connected to a plain hose which is connected to the faucet.
At each of the two faucets, we installed the manual timers (think kitchen "tick-tick" timer) that we got at Tractor Supply. Once we sort out the proper time for each group to have the water running, taking care of the watering chore is going to be very easy!
Speaking of the ornamental garden, yesterday Danny planted the coleus, Johnny-jump-up, and English daisy seedlings that had been languishing in my office. They're all still pretty tiny, but hopefully they will perk up now that they are out of the house and in the ground where they belong.
Here are this week's photos. Everything is doing really quite well!
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| Spaghetti Squash |
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| Stevia, Banana Pepper, and Three Other Kinds of Pepper |
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| Look! Our little banana pepper plant has produced again! |
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| A closeup to give an idea of the size. |
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| Basil, Rosemary, Pineapple Sage, Basil |
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| Patio Tomato, Patio Tomato, Stevia, Patio Tomato |
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| The tomato plants are already putting on tomatoes! |
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| Another closeup of the plant in action. |
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| Hard to see...but all the little sticks indicate the newest plantings. |
I thought I'd posted a comment on this - pregnancy brain strikes again? LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm super jealous of the irrigation system. And still jealous of the squash. I need gardens like this! :)