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What's happening in your garden today?

Mike said:
It will be a real time-saver for me, and help be sure the garden gets sufficient water during the hot Texas days of 100+ with basically 0% humidity. We did a few plants under drip last year and they did fantastic. Looking forward to having it on almost everything this year!
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Really, my only tips would be to put in shut-off valves periodically and strategically throughout the lines. Nothing took the wind out of my sails faster than when I installed the entire system and then had almost NO pressure because I tried watering everything at once. I installed the valves and was able to water individual or groups of beds at a time. Voila!! Also, auto-timers are nice!!!!
 
Ostrodamus said:
Really, my only tips would be to put in shut-off valves periodically and strategically throughout the lines. Nothing took the wind out of my sails faster than when I installed the entire system and then had almost NO pressure because I tried watering everything at once. I installed the valves and was able to water individual or groups of beds at a time. Voila!! Also, auto-timers are nice!!!!
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Our plan is to have four different watering zones, all on a timer. We actually watered with a timer last year with sprinklers but it was terrible for weed control.

I plan to run a large line from the timer down the side of all the rows. Then I'll reduce to the small lines on each row and a drip line on each plant. There will be a shit off at the start of every row, so when one veggie is done we can turn that row off and still water the rest.

At the end of the year, we'll be able to roll up each row, label what veggie it was on, and have it ready for next year. This way we can rotate rows into different spots in the garden but not have to rebuild the drip lines every year.
 
The air was damp and the ground wet, but dry enough to do some wisteria pruning.
This was the one that need the most work.

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Over time, the heads get too many branches on them.


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I thinned them out, removing some of the older wood and branches that were growing towards the fence.


These three needed quite a bit of pruning, particular those branches that wanted to grow "skywards." I also tied down some of the "cascading" branches to a wire I strung between the pergola posts. I'll remove the wires in the spring once there's a fair bit of growth on the trailing ones.

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This didn't need much work, but I did require a ladder.


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This is the last one I did today, just the two over the pergola on the back of the house yet to be done.


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Got my garden vac. out and had a good clear up of more leaves. I started at 1.00pm but by 3.00pm it was starting to get dark, so I called it a day.
 
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Gardens are something that some folks tend to every day, so I thought this would be a good thread idea. Let's see what you're doing in your garden today. It might even encourage others to get out there and get some work done in their own gardens!

While I didn't do anything in the garden today, just a few days ago we went over to the garden (it's actually not on the same property as where I live) just to have a look to see what needs to be done soon to get ready for spring planting.

This is the second year with this garden and, needless to say, the weeds are still everywhere! So, a good tilling is definitely in our very near future. I'll probably get all these weeds mowed down, then till them into the soil. Hopefully, assuming I get to it soon, those weeds can start to break down and add a little nutrient back to the soil. While not the most effective thing, I'm sure, they're like my own built-in cover crop. :ROFLMAO:

We also checked on the strawberry patch. It's looking awesome! For those wondering, last year we grew strawberries in and old container that I cut in half. After the season was over, we transplanted them all into a new spot in the ground. The plan is to use that spot to just grow plants. In fact, we very well may pinch all the blooms off to just keep the plants growing and, more importantly, spreading. We're hoping to build a hydroponic strawberry rack this year and use our current strawberry plants for that. The hope is that the ground patch will provide us with enough plants for the hydroponic rack every year so we don't have to buy them.

Anyways, that's all we're up to right now. It's almost spring, though, and it's definitely close enough to start getting some ground work done!

Here's a photo that @Meadowlark uploaded to another site but I'm sure he won't mind me using it here. Looks like he had a good day in the garden this day!

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No gardening today, just a bit of shopping and recovering from the "fridge/freezer crisis" last night.
I'll tidy the shed and garage tomorrow, whilst I "turn over" my jukeboxes, they haven't been played for a week and "they won't have liked it."
 
I got done today what I said I would do, including "turning over the jukeboxes."
They do have on their thermal "winter coats" and heaters, but they don't like inactivity. Lots of leaf switches open to the air. Hopefully, they will continue to function as and when during the winter, before they get more use in the warmer months.

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We've always said there isn't enough room for one in my den...the front room. We wouldn't want one in the lounge. But my wife has recently suggested it might be possible. I think she's concerned about me going down there at my age, when it's really cold.

It could go just inside the door where I presently have my piano.

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I could always move the piano and put it under my jukebox wall boxes on the back wall. My only concern is that it would be in front of the radiator. But the wall boxes have come to no harm, being above it for 15 years.

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It'd be the small one that I would bring in.
It's a major job, as it weighs around 300lb.
I have still got the ramp I made to get it up the tea-house steps when I bought it.
But it will be a case of negotiating it past this acer palmatum.

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All the records would have to come out, the turntable lifted off and the tone arm taped down. It'll be easy to move on my sack truck. I can use the ramp to get it through our front door. I'd need a couple of big squares of hardboard on the floor, to stop its castors ruining the carpet as it was rolled in. Then a square of plywood to sit in on to stop the castors from digging into the carpet.
But it's a job for the warmer months. If I decide to do it, I'll get my son to give me a lift. He helped me get it into the tea-house over fifteen years ago. It's not a decision I need to make now.
I've still the wisterias on the back of the house to prune, but that needs a dryer day.
 
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Started working on my Greenhouse getting it ready.

Found a paper on starting Petunias and according to it in order to have them blooming by early Spring I need to order seed.

Found my Soil PH meter so I played with it a bit. Found my Soil Mix has proper PH.

Have some stuff I thought I could use but found wouldn't work and I will never use it and I have no idea what to do with it.

Tiered tomorrow I will have another go at it.

big rockpile
 

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