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Won't Use Soaker Hoses Again This Season (John)
"EVP MAN" wrote
I don't think I'll have the funds for a drip irrigation system so I'll no doubt use a gallon milk jug to water each plant. I've read a few articles on the net where you can bury half a soda bottle near the base of each plant and use them as a drip irrigation system. Perhaps I may experiment with that method also. You sure hit the nail right on the It can be done but I mostly container garden. Thats a simple factor of 26 years Navy moves and apartments involved where you can't have a garden. Now I do it because I don't want my dogs peeing on my food (grin, maybe it's organic but not the sort of organic I wanna eat!). To make a container garden work, I've done the drip type milk/soda bottle type of water feed often but the style is a bit different probably. It's upended bottles with a pinhole at the 'bottom' (but hung up so that's at the top) and fishing airline hose. That is a specific though to container gardening and you seem inground. fall and most any other kind of organic matter. I know it will take time but I'm getting nice crops and it should improve with each passing year It will! Re-enriching the soil is the main failure of container gardens. I need to do some serious replacement of up to 1/2 the soil next year in mine. The soild though won't be wasted. It's still fine for the flowers and a few spots of the yard could use some filling to even it out. |
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