Everyone focuses on the pretty, fruitful parts of a garden. But there is usually a system set up in the background making it possible. This timer has the main hoses out to the four raised hugelkulter vegetable beds. The hoses have painter’s tape and labels for which bed they go to. The splitter above the timer has the 120′ fabric hose I use to hand water and the white line goes to a second timer. At the top of the splitter is a short piece of hose. These timers are almost $70 a piece. They also don’t last more than a couple of seasons. Any pressure on the plastic nozzles cracks them and renders them useless. If you buy these, get a warranty with them. You will need to use it.
I drove t-posts in last weekend. I used a sledge hammer. Don’t do that. So dumb. I had an uncontrollable migraine and tennis elbow until I visited my chiropractor. If you have t-posts get a driver. They aren’t that expensive and drivers are super easy to use. I have more posts to install, so I’ve decided to get a driver. When you are buying t-posts remember some of the length will be in the ground, so the t-post you buy should be taller than your fencing.
All the short ones were sprouts off of the shortest season banana I have (called Kokopo or Patupi) that I put in last year. Hopefully, the original rootball fruits. I had a bunch of antique bananas that I removed because they weren’t ever going to fruit. I left two on one end, but I’m focusing on the short season ones from now on (two are Viente Cohol).
I’ve decided to not do bananas behind the cherries (for a more permanent alternative to shade cloth.) I figured they would be tall and cover some of the sun exposure by the time the cherries were struggling. The bananas I transplanted back there burned up and didn’t come back. My new idea is a couple of old fashioned crepe myrtles, that my neighbor gave me, that have been sitting in pots for 5 years.
My right arm has decided it no longer wishes to participate in the crazy gardening I’m doing, so: I’m going to take tomorrow off!
Having a ball creating my dream garden. Meet you outside to compare our aquired bruises and pulled muscles!
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Bananas burned up?! That can happen?! Mine are very slow this year because the weather has been so mild. Some are more difficult to grow than I thought they would be, and some of the healthiest got a bit of sunburn on their foliage.
Unfortunately we don’t get rain when we get our hottest time of year. Had my drip line functioned properly they probably would have made it, but they are a marginal fruit here. I only tried them because I always have pups. I need to put something back there that doesn’t require me to do anything special for it to survive. But yes bananas are sissies when it comes to excess heat or cold. They require tons of water and won’t set fruit in the middle of summer.
I am the system 🙂
Yes!