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got 3 pots each of snap peas, sugar peas and green beans, basil just sprouted but none of my tomatoes or peppers have yet
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got my dripline up and running today and decided to post about it why do dripline? dripline allows you to put a specific amount of water exactly where you want it, reducing water waste, erosion and weeding... with a timer you can gently caress off and be super lazy when it's over 100 out and not have to worry about dragging a hose around every day why not do dripline? a hose is cheap and you may have ample free time to stand outside with a hose every day idk things you need: basic tools: punch and cut tool to make holes in 1/2" dripline and slice up dripline, zip ties, maybe some vise grips dripline: 1/2" mainlines and 1/4" emitter lines are standard in the states, leave them in the sun s little bit before using to soften them and make connections easier fittings and connectors: fitting to transition hose bib or garden hose to 1/2" dripline, some t fittings to split 1/2" lines, 1/4" barbed connectors, i prefer screw-tight fittings to compression fittings because they seem more secure and are easier to reuse emitters: there's like a thousand varieties but i prefer variable emitters that let you dial in a flow rate starting at 0gpm, on a stake, and come with a free barbed connector... and i use sprinklers, bubblers or misters depending on circumstances metal wire stakes to hold the dripline in place unless you're burying it optional: programmable timer, y adapter for the hose bib so you don't lose functionality to the dripline setting up: in my current system i have the timer coming off the hose bib connected to the 1/2" dripline adapter, put a t connector in about 6 feet down the line and have one line supplying my pots and one line supplying the garden, cut 4' portions of 1/4" line put a barbed connector in one end and the emitter in the other, punch a hole in the 1/2" line and stick the barbed connector in... to terminate a line all you need to do is fold it over to kink it and hold it in place with a zip tie
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Apr 16, 2020 03:36
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twoday posted:what is a dripline? more expensive and controlled than poking holes in a garden hose with a nail and laying it next to whatever you want watered, but pretty much the same thing in concept
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Apr 16, 2020 03:46
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dripline emitters do all sorts of things depending on your needs... you can get emitters that encircle a tree and distribute water over the roots evenly, you can use underground soaker line to water an entire garden row at the roots, or you can use emitters to target a specific plant or group of plants... emitters are rated with a flow rate of gallons per minute, coverage angle and the pattern of the emitted water... i use variable emitters mostly because as plants grow they need increasing water over time and it's nice to be able to shut an emitter off completely when not in use
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Apr 16, 2020 04:28
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Abongination posted:I’ve had bad experience with drip line clogging so generally prefer sprinkler heads covering areas. least you can tell if it’s not working. yeah, happens more frequently if you bury the line as silt seeps in, need to flush the system by opening the ends of the 1/2" lines and letting it rip every couple months to keep the lines clear... it helps to use a little too much 1/4" emitter line because if you have a problematic emitter you can snip it off the end of the line and swap in a new one quick
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Apr 16, 2020 14:45
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start of drip irrigation system with hose bib, y adapter, timer, threaded 3/4" to 1/2" screw-tight fitting and 1/2" line: rescued grape with hopefully germinating nightshades:  bean pot, made these last year by drilling holes near the rim and using large gauge steel fencing wire to make a cage, worked well for tomatoes and peppers:  one of my emitters doing its thing:  terminating 1/2" line with a zip tie:  recently transplanted sage in the main garden area:  getting the garden ready for transplants:  using some concepts of permaculture in my garden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture exclusively relying on compost and mulching for soil nutrients, mixed composted horse manure and mulch into the soil when it was tilled, doing sheet mulching with leaves to promote a healthy microbial, fungal and insect ecosystem, encourage earthworm activity, prevent weeds and improve soil moisture
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Apr 18, 2020 17:38
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I have that same problem in my backyard of limited shade due to trees surrounding it. May not be as bad as your parents, since I was able to get tomatoes, snap peas and peppers growing. My problem was the deer eating my tomatoes plants before they finished ripening. deer are the worst, one time i planted a dozen or so pepper plants in a planter box in my backyard and one day i left the gate open so a deer moseyed in and chewed all the plants down to the roots... another time i was trying to make an ornamental fence out of grapevines and the deer wouldn't leave the grapes alone so i had to spray this rancid egg and cayenne mixture all over the leaves once a week to keep them away, they seem to leave herbs or anything with a strong flavor alone at least
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Apr 19, 2020 15:23
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i had a problem for a couple weeks last summer when feral peacocks were eating my tomatoes
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Apr 19, 2020 15:27
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i remember hearing as a kid that native americans would plant their corn and bury a fish head with it but in reality it would rot and kill the corn
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Apr 23, 2020 00:20
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thinking about trellising my tomatoes and peppers with an overhead line suspended between posts, but don't necessarily want to buy t posts, might see if i can scavenge some hosed up 2×4s to use instead
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Apr 23, 2020 04:02
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came up on 20ish free t posts that were in a junk pile
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Apr 24, 2020 02:53
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got the drip installation finished for the main garden, may have gone overboard and put in 48 0-10gph emitters so there wasn't enough water pressure to run my pots at the same time and had to run a separate line... picked up some nice pepper starts though, got an aji amarillo, some fresnos new mexicos and havasus... dogs were digging in the garden so i have to put up fencing to keep them out one nice thing about my garden location is it's next to a pile of pavers that provide a habitat for lots of pest-eating lizards
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Apr 25, 2020 21:32
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 got the garden pretty much finished, all the drip is done, fencing is up, trellises are set, planted the pepper starts, still have 30ish unused emitters where i can stick my sprouting basil, chives, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers eventually  row of peppers amongst the mulch underneath the trellis, top line of the trellis is paracord and the rest is twine, don't think the twine will hold up well with plants full of fruit so will run some vertical lines down from the paracord eventually... suspended my unused emitters so they don't get lost in the mulch or get stepped on
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Apr 29, 2020 16:08
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looking into getting some bolt resistant lettuce to grow through the summer since we have hot summers here and came upon this: http://sacmg.ucanr.edu/summer_lettuce/ jericho and nevada lettuce look pretty good but might have a hard time sourcing seed locally, anyone have experience with online seed vendors?
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Apr 29, 2020 23:30
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huh, all packs of jericho lettuce seeds are out of stock except for the 1oz size for $15 "one ounce of jericho lettuce seeds contains approximately 39,000 seeds" *clicks add to cart*
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Apr 30, 2020 04:32
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blackberrys grow wild around here and they'll take over stream banks or depressions in the land where water can accumulate and form 8 foot high thorny barriers full of berries, clearing them is such a pain in the rear end
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Apr 30, 2020 14:50
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just bought a shitload of lettuce, spinach, beet and mustard seeds... gonna have greens for days, now im looking at getting a curry bush, kaffir lime and lemongrass for a lifetime supply of curries
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May 1, 2020 00:29
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Dustcat posted:sweet! i just ordered a bunch of drip irrigation junk to mechanize my agricultural production, gonna post proud pictures in a week or two sure, ill take em, sent you a message
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May 1, 2020 15:48
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 beans are coming along, not sure if i want to keep running with 4 in the pot or if i should cull them down to 2, i guess there's about 15 gallons of rich soil per pot  maybe a little too rich, there's some heavy mycocomposting activity, beans in this pot are smaller
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May 2, 2020 15:21
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Platystemon posted:Can we consider the Lenin to piranha pipeline to be aquaculture? what's the term for mulching via fish?
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May 3, 2020 15:20
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May 9, 2020 15:33
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Marzzle posted:I added some dried grass clippings to my compost and now after a year of trying it's finally at the right ratio to cook and I've never been more excited about literal garbage hoping to get a big compost pile going here sometime... my house burned down and they had to scrape 18" of soil from the lot so all the topsoil is gone, still a couple years away from moving back but when i do i want to set up a bunch of raised beds but will need lots of soil to fill them... my current spot provides access to unlimited amounts of oak leaves and horse poo poo
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Jun 4, 2020 17:00
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Marzzle posted:I'm getting some manure to sub into this gardening soil recipe I've been doing. ive used a similar mix but with no manure and about 50% coir, and mixed in nutrients in the form of kelp meal, bone meal, blood meal and dolomite and it worked good for peppers and tomatoes
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Jun 6, 2020 00:28
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Platystemon posted:
reminds me of an oyster mushroom cultivation setup... could do a small scale one with a 5 gallon bucket with holes drilled in it
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Aug 16, 2020 17:48
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i was given a bag of magic beans
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Jan 2, 2021 23:13
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Thanks! And yeah, all options are open. There's tons of vine plants all over that fence in the back but I would probably go for something prettier and less invasive. Any suggestions? im planning on building a fire pit chill area in my backyard surrounded by raised bed gardens and a circular arbor with kiwi vines on it... the vines and flowers look nice, plus you get to look at a bunch of hairy balls when they start to ripen
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Jul 15, 2021 17:54
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the birds are getting more tomatoes than i am
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Jul 16, 2021 19:20
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i was given a few tomatillo volunteers from someone's garden and i understand they aren't self-pollinating but i guess you need 3 or more since only one of them has fruited and the other one hasn't and as a consequence is vegging out like crazy and like 6 times bigger than the fruiting plant
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Jul 19, 2021 14:38
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informed my wife this morning i spent $300 on seeds bought a shitload of arugula, greens beet, mustard and sorrel seeds... apparently sorrel sucks
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Feb 2, 2022 04:40
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i mean, i got other poo poo too... all my pepper and tomato seeds, 4 types of basil, cucumbers, peas, beans, eggplants, bok choi, chives, oregano and a lot of hyssop for hedges
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Feb 2, 2022 04:47
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borage: songs to make love to your old sow to
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Feb 2, 2022 04:54
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Is there a "thing" to repurpose into a compost bin? I'd prefer not to buy a new product for it and would rather re-use/re-purpose something pallet wood is almost always treated and i wouldn't want it breaking down into my compost, untreated scraps of wood is fine though... i have a bunch of 1x4 boards used once for concrete forms and stakes i intend to make a compost bin out of anybody know of a good place to get kelp meal fertilizer in quantities of like 25 or 50lb?
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Feb 26, 2022 02:53
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The Voice of Labor posted:southern oregon lol, there's actually a location near me since im norcal, thanks
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Feb 26, 2022 03:36
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you could probably make a decent compost bin out of a cylinder of chicken wire alone, although it would be easier to prevent drying with a barrier on the outside
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Feb 26, 2022 04:01
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50lb sack of kelp acquired! doing an organic 1-0.26-1.35 fertilizer mix for my lettuce and herb beds and it works out to 34 parts kelp meal to 1 part each of bone and blood meal and getting the kelp meal in bulk is essential to keeping the cost down grange coop has a lotta cool stuff, kinda like the now gone orchard supply but less emphasis on tools and more emphasis on agriculture, picked up a bunch of other stuff i had been looking for too
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Feb 27, 2022 17:43
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im going to do row covers too or netting at the very least to keep out deer, rabbits, birds, squirrels, skunks, etc... don't think i can get away with wire though because it gets really loving windy here sometimes, so im using steel 1/2" emt conduit and making a form to bend the hoops and i got a bunch of clips that hold the material to the emt like this the emt currently costs $6 for 10 feet, and i imagine it has a decade or longer lifespan
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Mar 1, 2022 15:01
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ive done a lot of dripline in the past and systems range in complexity from single input and output inline valves with a battery powered timer to an array of solenoid valves with control cables going to an irrigation controller, so what's appropriate kinda depends on your needs and scale if you're starting out and have a smaller area to water you can get by with a battery powered inline valve or two like this... they make inline valves that have 2, 3 or 4 outputs, i used a 4 output last year on my bucket garden but wasn't so impressed because the build quality was pretty poo poo and it was leaky next you'll need actual dripline, fittings, emitters and tools the dripline is simple, 1/2" dripline connects to the water source (no need for a pressure regulator unless you have crazy high water pressure), 1/4" dripline punches into the 1/2" dripline and delivers water to an emitter or two, there is also drip tape that emits water at regular intervals which i will be using the first time this year because i just want even watering in my beds underneath landscape fabric to keep air humidity and splash down i always get fittings that are twist-to-tighten because they're a lot easier to install, uninstall, reconfigure and reuse than barbed or compression fittings... you'll need at the least a fitting to convert from a standard hose bib to 1/2" dripline, probably a few t connectors and 90 degree elbows... i don't bother with terminal fittings, i just fold the end of the dripline back on itself and hold it there with a ziptie, i don't use filters or anything because there's a lot more silt back-flowing through emitters and connection points than coming through the tap, and again i don't use pressure regulators because they just gimp your system to lower capacity and add an additional failure point when most of the time the water pressure is fine to start with there's like bajillions of types of emitters, but in general i like adjustable emitters because i can modify flow rate easily during plant growth or weather changes, also some emitters come with the barb connectors to plug the other end of the 1/4" line into the 1/2" line, which saves you from buying one more thing, so choose those over others if they're otherwise similar for tools you basically just need a punch tool and a dripline cutter, which are often combined into 1 tool... i find zip ties also useful and these days i pin my dripline to the dirt with bamboo cooking skewers cut in half some additional tips: dripline is easier to work with after getting warm in the sun, dripline will also expand in the sun and contract again when cold, so plugging emitters directly into the 1/2" line is problematic because the 1/2" line will want to move somewhere else unless buried or anchored... in general i prefer to use lower flow emitters because you can run many more of them and you can always run the line a little longer but you can't increase the max flow rate
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Mar 2, 2022 21:06
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also always make your 1/4" lines to your emitters a little longer than they need to be, so that if an emitter fails or you want to change it out you can just snip it off the end and put a new one in quick
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Mar 3, 2022 17:22
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we had a couple of hard freezes and my limes aren't doing so good now, if they pull through they'll need to be wrapped up for future freezes... i have a key lime but i knew they were particularly sensitive to cold and i put it in a container so i could wheel it into the garage when needed, need to make a proper greenhouse at some point and park limes, avocado, lemongrass and a curry tree in there a guy i know decided to grow hothouse tomatoes through the winter, started in early december and was starting to yield well when a couple weeks back the breaker powering his heat lamps tripped and he didn't realize it and there was a freeze and everything died
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doing soil blocks for the first time, things seem to be going well got peppers, eggplants and tomatoes all started and looking good the mix for the soil blocks is 10 qts hydrated coconut coir, 10 qts peat moss, 10 qts compost, 10 lbs earthworm castings, 1/2 cup kelp meal, 1/8 cup ag dolomite... i make up a batch and mix it well without adding any water, pour some in a bucket, mix in water until it's a thick mud consistency, then shove it into a tool called a soil blocker that shits out the blocks when you squeeze it like a really messy playdoh toy advantages are: no need to buy plug trays, seedling starter pots, etc, plants do not become root-bound as the roots air prune when they reach the edge of block, reduced transplant shock because of minimal root disturbance, once seeds have germinated you can bottom water and the blocks wick the water to the top disadvantages: messy, time consuming... although with practice i might get quicker, takes me about 20 minutes with everything set up to make a tray of 32 blocks  im thinking these blocks won't be big enough to handle the tomatoes for 4 more weeks, will have to transplant then into bigger blocks and im probably going to have to make them with a homemade mold of some sort
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