"Judith" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:12:48 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:49:43 +0100, Judith in England wrote:

I think i'd turn down the watering and keep an eye on the plants
in
the raised beds.

We have the watering coming on twice during the night - for 15 mins each
time - six hours apart.
I did this last year - and the raised beds did not get "soggy" at all.

Thought you said the beds drained "very very well". Or are you really
referring to the ground around? The fact that there is excess water
some where shows that there is excess watering.

I have said that the raised beds did not get "soggy" at all: and:
The grass at the side of the beds has become very, very wet - and really
never
dries out: it is particularly noticeable in the morning after the night
watering session. The raised beds drain very, very well.




All the produce from them was fantastic. So I don't think the watering
is the problem

Meh, I and several others seem to think it is on the information
provided.

Which information do you and others think was a problem?
I cannot see anything conflicting.


Could be a leak in the supply pipe.

On 2014-07-02 06:59:32 +0000, Judith in England said:

On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:24:55 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

On 01/07/14 19:58, Judith in England wrote:



We have some raised beds which border on to a lawn. The raised beds are
watered each night through an automatic irrigation system.

Would a soaker hose be more appropriate?



Possible: but I have now have installed half-inch pipes in the raised beds and
have various drippers and sprays running off them. I can vary the amount of
water that each bed (and each different veg.) gets.

I'd go for rice, if I were you. This is now so ridiculous that you
should be ashamed of yourself for so mis-using the good nature of
others. But you won't be.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 2014-07-03 09:09:59 +0000, Chris Hogg said:

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:43:31 +0100, Sacha
wrote:


I'd go for rice, if I were you.

LOL. It sounds to me as though there's something seriously amiss with
the watering regime, if it was OK last year but not this. Either the
timer has failed and it's on for much longer than she realises, or a
pipe somewhere has fractured or a joint come apart and is delivering
much more water than intended. Something must have changed.

Or the whole thing is a wind up as it moves from one outrageously silly
phase to the next! ;-)
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon