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Orbit automatic sprinkling system.
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Orbit automatic sprinkling system.
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It has been a month since I last posted about the garden. Its growing. I do not have any fatalities to report. However there have been some surprises.
The first surprise about a week into the new water system and the hose blows. Reality easy fix, just replace the hose with what should be a more sturdy hose.
Second surprise: About June 6th the new hose spit. We had another gusher!!
We will try another solution BJ will put in a PVC pipe to the automatic system.
That should hold us for the rest to the summer.
My vegetable beds look good.
The East Bed
The Maddi Bed
The West bed.
Lots of growth. Including for Maddi. Maddi liked the crackers.
BJ, my husband, set up the sprinkler and drip system last night. I was so excited. I set the timer on the two zones. Zone 1 is down stairs from the deck in the vegetable beds. Zone 2 is on the deck for the hanging baskets and the herb pots. I was so excited!! Now we would be able to go on our weekend trips through out the summer and come home to plant that were still alive and doing well (hopefully).
In my hurry to post my project to my blog, I forgot two important pictures. The top is where we have been storing the pallets for the last16 years that I have been around. The next is a picture of the Raised Garden Kit from Ace Hardware before it was assembled.
Now the pallet pile is much smaller. BJ originally picked up to burn in the winter for the downstairs stove. He never cut them up so we could burn them.
Now the sprinkler and drip system:
Research was easy with the internet. I decided on an Orbit because I had the options I wanted. I only needed a two zone. But I wanted to be able to control several watering times throughout the day.
From the yard looking up to the deck.
That is BJ working his way down from the deck to Zone 1 on the ground.
Zone 1 has a sprinkler in each corner of the bed which waters 1/4th of the bed. So we have four sprinklers.
WE have a bed on each side of the stairs for my easy
access for future weeding and harvesting.
Up on the deck is zone 2 with two areas. this area is set up for the herbs and I have my cherry tomatoes. I am keeping those separate from the Early Girly tomatoes so they hopefully well not cross pollinate.
The water goes into the manifold that then dispenses the water to the individual pots.
There is a manifold at a corner on each of the beds for distribution of water.
The drip system on the deck (zone 2).
you can see the hose coming down from the main hose system to this hanging geranium.
Did I say I was so excited?
