Mini raised bed #3 ( lemmy.world )

In this bed, for starters we have San marzano, brandy wine and love gourmanson sunrise tomatoes, and some pollinator flowers.

For seeds we have sage, iceberg lettuce and Lebanese cucumbers, scatter planted we have red radishes and rainbow carrots.

Getting time to start thinning here soon.

Do you guys cut or pull when thinning?

Bitswap Mod ,

What's your watering situation? You've posted so many lovely raised beds and potted plants all across your property. Are you using soaker hose everywhere or is it some type of drip tubing? I'm about to redo our water and just looking at options. Right now I'm leaning towards drip tubing...

SchmidtGenetics OP ,

Installed the soaker and the city had a main burst, so watering by friggen hand with rain water! For probably another 3-5 weeks too…

It’s a soaker line, soaker line is great for the beds, but not for the pots, even with the soaker line it doesn’t spread out and soak the entire top sometimes either, I could probably do a tighter weave and more lines, but once the roots are established, that’s a non-issue kinda.

So I’m gonna change it up when I’m allowed and some drip lines as well for the pots.

The stuff on the deck is hand water for now, will add a drip system eventually. Play around with the garden one first and go from there. I got lots of random drip line parts from my dabbling in growing cannabis in soil.

Edit, oh and the flower beds are nothing, they usually get hit when I water the grass with the sprinkler, I may do drip in those ones eventually as well, anything I do needs to be able to be pulled out for winter storage unfortunately. So they are hand water right now too…. Ugghh

Bitswap Mod ,

Yeah. Hand watering takes so so long. I'm really trying to reduce the amount of hand water required this year. I'm looking to do drip tubing and drip micro tubing, but still researching my options. I've been asking everyone I know. Most people use a bit of everything (hand watering, sprinklers, drip/soaker hose, etc.)

Nouveau_Burnswick ,

Hope you survive the extended water restrictions!

SchmidtGenetics OP , (edited )

I’ve got some spare totes around the house and I’ll get some more from HD to collect the rain water the next few days. I’ll just let the barrel overflow fill them up. It’ll be ghetto, but at that point those things are $12 for 100l or it’s over $150 for any other option of 200l.

Here’s hoping it’s enough! I think I can add some more straw here soon though, that should help keep it moister.

But 3-5 more weeks is rough, most people aren’t gonna follow them that long, so the more rain I can keep, the better I’ll feel when I need a tiny bit.

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