[Ag-eq] Watering

[Tracy Carcione]

Do you have mulch down, too?  Mulch helps keep the soil from drying out,
and cuts down on weeds.  It also keeps mud from splashing on the plants
when it rains.
I'm experimenting with straw mulch.  Before I got a bale of straw, I used
shredded leaves.  I'd scamper all over, taking people's leaf piles in the
fall and feeding them through my shredder.  I think the straw is a bit
cleaner, but the leaves are easier to spread around.
Tracy


> Hi Tracy
>
> Yes I would like to put in a system like you have and then I don't think I
> will have as many problems with my garden. Down here you have to keep the
> ground wet just so that the plants won't cook.
>
> I have also heard that if you use the soaker hose and just water the
> plants that you don't end up with weeds in between the rows like you do
> when you water the whole garden.
>
> Thank you for the link to the garden supplies
>
> JODY 🐺
> thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
>
> "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
> DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
>
>> On Jun 28, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq
>> <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Last spring, I bought a couple watering systems from Gardeners Supply,
>> gardeners.com. They're both Snip 'n Drip systems.
>>
>> One is a set of sprinkler heads and hose.  I stuck the sprinklers into
>> the
>> ground near my various gardens, and cut pieces of hose to connect them
>> together, then connected the last, or first?, to my garden hose.  Now, I
>> can
>> just turn on one faucet, and poof!  All the sprinklers start going at
>> once.
>> No more moving sprinklers all around, and the whole deal is done in
>> 30-45
>> minutes.
>>
>> I bought a similar thing with soaker hoses-run the soaker hoses where I
>> want
>> them, connect them to regular hose pieces to go across the land that
>> doesn't
>> need soakers, and connect the whole thing to the garden hose when I want
>> to
>> run it.
>>
>> Mostly I've used the sprinklers this year, but both systems are pretty
>> handy.
>>
>> I mention all this because Jodi said keeping her garden watered was a
>> big
>> problem this summer.  Of course, it's not so relentlessly hot up here in
>> Jersey as it is in Florida.
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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