2026 Garden Thread

[djlew]

from last week, there has been a good deal of growth since...

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Front porch garden...this is just some rocks and clay...
from left to right...
front row,
Early Girl tomato, Marglobe x2, Rutgers, Early Girl.
back row, 'Mystery Squash', White Cucumbers x2.........hard to see them down low in the rear, at ground level.


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Here is the main section, again it's 8x30...
up front, tomatoes again...(extra's in pots)
from l to r.
Marglobe, Yellow Str. Squash, Rutgers, White Cucumbers, Yellow Str. Squash.

Dirt area in middle is fresh Asparagus crowns...

Easier to see from the side.
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Off to left is the white cucumbers i mentioned...in front of us is an Early Girl tomato, yellow squash, and Black Zucchini to the right. The single Okra plant hides over there.

In the longer shot you saw the Green pole beans in the back, here's a better view of them.
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Have cages in here now for the beans....White Mountain Half Runners....and they have runners coming in now, just not in these pictures..

And here is the minor garden...more of the same things...
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Many circular(ish) rows....going from front to rear....

Tomatos, Rutgers and Marglobe x2 each.
Yellow Str. Squash.
Black Zucchini
White Cucumbers
Cantaloupes.....Honey Rock, Iroquois, Hales Best.

And then there's what remains to plant....and now that it's FINALLY RAINING, I can plant these since there out beyond the reach of the water hose, and certainly would have crispy-dustified weeks ago......
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Jugs have more White Cucumbers, Pablanos(didn't sprout), Roma tomatos(no sprout)...

and the trays are ALL Watermelons..
Petite Yellow, Golden Yellow, Sugar Baby, Stars and Moon, Congo, and Crimson Sweet....

No pics of the Butternut Squash, or Pumpkins...

@djlew This year I AM growing Early Girl tomatos...Started them from seed after last years nonsense...
(last year)I purchased '-Bush- Early Girl' at the hardware store i've used for years, not knowing there were two kinds, bush and normal...
However, the growth was nothing like expectations. (Claim-54 days to harvest)....well...I strongly suspect these were some type of yellow tomato...they never turned red, and certainly not early.
They came all at once, all different sizes, and very late(90+ days)....even then they were yellowy. So last year wasted due to poor labeling by grower...

This year i purchased the Early Girl seed myself, and so far i'm impressed.

All Rutgers and Marglobes are knee high. Each Early Girl is over waist high and has 3-6 Golf ball sized tomatoes that are rapidly increasing.
Marglobes and Rutgers canopy 1 sq. ft. EG has 4 sq. ft easy of canopy.

I'll get some photos of a side by side for your comparison.



the minor garden activity for now....
I started a Potato tower this year, as an experiment.
Still have some hot peppers sprouting, and I'm trying for late bloomer okra to join their older sister.


Planting melons, winter squash, pumpkins and sunflowers now that it's rained. We've had 1/4 inch of rain in 3.5 months.

Looks great! I have to say, after last year, I am so discouraged about tomatoes, I am hoping this year changes my mind again! My nursery had Early Girl again this year but we just stuck with Beefsteak and San Marzano. So far, so good. We are catching up on the rain this week as well, the drought has been brutal!

 

[DuaeGuttae]

Looks great DG! I'm glad you were able to get a lot done.

It has been brutally hot here the past few days. We should be topping out at 100F here today. Then the massive temp drop is supposed to come in tomorrow. I've been working hard trying to keep everything hydrated. My blueberries are showing signs of scald. I am going to move them into a raised bed or pots next year I think. More control over soil acidity and can move them into shade.

Everything else seems to be fairing fine. My tomatoes and cucumbers are enjoying the heat from the looks of it. I threw down a layer of my homemade mulch to cool them down hopefully. Nasturtium seeds are also popping up! I also direct sowed some of these "rainbow carrot" seeds I found at the store. They look really cool in photos! We'll see how they do.

Besides the scald on my blueberries, my peaches might be reacting to the heat by throwing out some water sprouts, but I can manage that. Hope everyone else's garden is faring well!

If you opt for a raised bed for your blueberries, @djlew , I'd suggest considering shade cloth for those days where you think they're getting too much sun.

In Texas we built a frame out of two by fours that we called our "blueberry cube." We covered the entire thing with bird netting to protect the fruit, and it had a doorway that we could open and simply walk in. Our blueberries there were potted because the natural "soil" was just limestone and couldn't be amended enough really. I don't know what your natural soil is like, but here in Virginia we've got natural acidity, but I do use Holly Tone and cottonseed meal around acid-loving plants.

My mom has some blueberry bushes in her garden that she used to cover individually using irrigation piping, but after we moved up here, we built her a blueberry box as well so that she could just walk inside to tend the plants without having to fight with netting every year. It makes it much easier.



If you could build some sort of frame around a raised bed, it would be great for bird netting or shade cloth as appropriate.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

@burning VC , thanks for all those pictures and garden updates. I love seeing what other people are growing.

I've been seeing the extreme and even exceptional drought status in North Carolina when I check the drought monitor. I'm so glad that you're actually getting some rain. We have been, too, these past few days, and I'm so thankful.

I notice in your pictures that you seem to have some pretty dark soil. Is that what's natural to your area, or is it heavily amended with compost? Our soil here is pretty much red clay with rocks thrown in, so I'm using a lot of compost and cover cropping to get my garden established. The clay has good nutrients and holds moisture, but it's too heavy without serious amending.

I've decided not to grow squash like pumpkins and zucchini this year because I had such bad squash bug pressure last year. I'm hoping that if I avoid those species that my cucumbers and melons won't get hit so hard. I'm trying a cucuzzi/zuchetta gourd instead. We'll see how that goes.

 

[begreen]

If you opt for a raised bed for your blueberries, @djlew , I'd suggest considering shade cloth for those days where you think they're getting too much sun.

If you could build some sort of frame around a raised bed, it would be great for bird netting or shade cloth as appropriate.

I built a simple frame out of 3/4" PVC about 12 yrs. ago. It's still doing its duty. Once all the blossoms are set and green berries are starting to form, I cover this bed with agricultural fabric that acts as a bird block but also knocks down the light by maybe 20%. We used to use bird netting but found it to be a hassle because it's fragile, snags easily, and some birds were getting trapped. A proper enclosure that keeps the netting away from the plants and has a way to completely access the plants would have been a solution, but that would have made access to adjacent beds tight. I have seen a local garden where they have their blueberry house (yes it is big) completely covered in shade block fabric and they get great blueberries. The plants don't seem to mind reduced light.

 

[begreen]

Our garden is progressing in spite of the flip-flopping weather and very sparse rainfall. Everything now is outside except for the greenhouse cucumber. I have the melons under a temporary greenhouse until we warm up more. The peppers and eggplant want more heat, but so far they are tolerating the cooler nights we have been having.

The broccoli loves this weather, so do the slugs, but the peas and the garlic are happy. I'll be harvesting the hardnecks in a couple of weeks. The tomatoes look great so far.

Potatoes, onions, peas, and then raspberries are all thriving. We started harvesting the first strawberries yesterday.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

@begreen , your garden looks great. Thanks for sharing those photos.

I just went and checked on my garden after a couple of days of light rain and cool temperatures. I pulled eight hardneck garlic scapes, so I'm expecting that I might be harvesting those bulbs in the next two to three weeks.

I saw flowers on the two of the tomatoes that managed to come back after our April hard freeze, though the regrown plants are still pretty small.

My lettuce and beets are looking very happy. I've been enjoying having lots of fresh lettuce for salads, and I'm looking forward to having some beets and greens fairly soon.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

I harvested a small batch of beets this evening to serve a side dish of beets and greens with our supper tonight. They're bulking up nicely after a good stretch of rain we had recently. I pulled the small one to give more space to a neighboring roots but also because my youngest child doesn't care for the flavor of beetroot, though he likes the greens with vinegar. I cut round slices for all the rest of us to share, but I sliced his into two wedge shapes so that it stood out for him. He's a good sport about it and keeps trying to just see if he likes them any better, but he doesn't. The rest of us all really enjoy them, though, so it's a good thing he likes the greens at this point.

 

[burning VC]

in the nwNC foothills...

After several episodes of mid- Spring rain following a week of record high temps....this is where the garden is at...

Here is the front 'porch garden', but side view. The Early Girls (front rt 3.5 feet tall) tomatoes have hints of pink blushing on the green. They exploded in flowers as well, but the height growth slowed a little. The Marglobe, Rutgers(rt rr, 2.5 ft tall) have started to bloom....(which is normal for June 1) They just look weak and tiny compared to the EG's. Now Marglobe and Rutgers are avg 1 lb, very little white inside, tasty tomatoes... We will have to slice and compare when we get there!

The white cucumbers are snaking on the left...and also climbing the tomato cage....which a remedy was attempted....

a handful of clusters like this on the front EG's.
and this area is just literally red clay mixed with gravel...


Here is the garden up to date...

Three tomato plants up front, from the left. Rutger, Marglobe.....3 ft tall(#1 Best spot in the garden)....The Yellow Str. Neck squash is slow for some reason, and the white cucumbers have begun to run.....blooming...

Here is a comparison shot of an Early Girl to a Rutgers. The Rutger's is in a 'tomato cage' type support(for height reference) and it's to the top of it(3 feet)....The Early Girl(panel cage) is another 26+ inches higher....most variables are the same except the Rutgers has the sun priority, it shades the EG.

This EG has the most tomatoes, it resembles ornaments on a Holiday Tree. Here there, everywhere, just more and more daily...

is the red showing?...just as tickled about that as i was seeing them on the vine last days of April...

So for sizes, the EG's are 5.5 feet tall, 4sq ft canopy, the Rutgers and Marglobes are 3 feet tall, 2 sq ft canopy.

Also, the EG's are in cages made from panel wire. Every year my tomatoes overgrow the cage, fall over, collapse the cage...just a real mess...The green beans always make a mockery of wire, poles, bamboo, string etc. This year it's Bean Tower Cages.

I used the 60 in, 12 gauge panel wire, cut into sections making 15-20 inch diameter tower cages.
Then you cut off one top(or bottom) wire to give you stable footing. Bend each end outward just a little....and stick into the ground...

Here are the green beans ..

Ok, that should be more stable, and hopefully 'more productive'. There are about 11 cages spaced roughly even apart.(2-4 ft).
The bonus here is that should the beans 'need more', i can run bamboo rods through each cage, at the very bottom and the very top, and they should 'lock' together and be super stable.
The plan is to leave each tower separate for now, though i might try to find 'caps' for them that allow expanded canopy(crowning) at the top of each tower.....

Speaking of towers, here the is experimental Potato Tower! Thats right, it's R.E.A.L......
Special thanks to Dad, who covertly dug up the 6 Okra (hardest stuff to grow on the land)that were thriving, to put potatoes in the Okra patch, hoping i wouldn't notice?

So, here we are. There are cut potatoes inside the cage. There are cut potatoes beside the cage. This is Tower method vs. Mound method.

Inside the cage, few sprouts....those be potatoes...those odd green weedy looking things lower right(not the grass)....those also potatoes.....probably will have another potato project added later...

So, there's the minor garden...going off...

Dirt's better here, but less light.. The Yellow Str Neck squash and Green Zucchini both have fruits and blooms.....only 1 Zucchini has hit the kitchen so far.... Cantalopes need more light, cucumbers are having same issue. Tomatoes are happy.

You can see where there just isn't enough sun......grow slower, smaller...then nothing...

To the right and to the rear it gets barren....just not enough light trickling through the trees.

And yes, I did take the Weed Eater straight within an inch of many, many garden plants.

@burning VC ,

I notice in your pictures that you seem to have some pretty dark soil. Is that what's natural to your area, or is it heavily amended with compost?

I've decided not to grow squash like pumpkins and zucchini this year because I had such bad squash bug pressure last year.

@DuaeGuttae My soil is naturally Red Brick Red Clay, the color of houses or Terra Cotta pottery.
This plot's been amended with wood shavings, mulch, leaf, grass, and compost over decades. I stack my firewood on it in winter, and the detritus, rotten wood crumble, and loose bark falls onto it. I split wood in the middle of it, so the chips and the slash fall in the soil.
A 1958 Briggs Stratton Senator (65?) model rototiller turned it over at season's beginning and season's end up until this year, when i brought out the new 212cc Champion front tine, and retired the Senator.
Every year i leave the fallen leaf cover atop the plot, leave it, and till it in at season's beginning.
But the soil is dark, and very fine with lumps of wood and bark, leaves and grass mixed from 12" below grade to 8" above it.(15 feet away, it's red clay yard)

Years ago, a relative same age as my Grandma mentioned he saw some peppers, tomatoes etc that i grew for her and we talked. This man ALWAYS had garden to share. We talked a bit, and he told me he always amended his soil, and got huge yields from small plots. He said he could tell from what i produced that i was doing 'something' correct, and to keep at it.


I think a tiller is a must have for a garden. Good roots, good plants. Good plants, good yields.

 

[begreen]

That's some serious gardening there VC. We're cooler here and our early girls are about a month behind yours, but there is one that is about 1.5" in diameter and the rest of the 14 tomato plants are starting to blossom. With our long daylight hours (16 at this time of year) things really take off in June.

 

[burning VC]

I forgot to conclude, the soil after being amended and cultivated with a garden tiller is a fine, dark extremely loamy grit. It's grit sample type soil, almost a dark gray sand with dark soft rotting chips in various stages.
Any spot you turn with a shovel reveals a just-moments-ago-living-its-best-life earthworm thick and healthy as heck, which is good for the dirt as well as a sign the soil micro-environment is balanced and harmonious.

@burning VC

I've decided not to grow squash like pumpkins and zucchini this year because I had such bad squash bug pressure last year. I'm hoping that if I avoid those species that my cucumbers and melons won't get hit so hard. I'm trying a cucuzzi/zuchetta gourd instead. We'll see how that goes.

Squash Vine Borers?
Spent the day in a swarm of them.
Short version, my father farmed Squash Vine Borers for a year. ☢️ Without pesticide, etc....they took over, destroyed the cucurbits for the season...just dying Zucchini's, squash, melons...busted vines and roots everywhere, no harvest...He didn't pull plants, or burn them. It was hell to be fighting them, when I did it prior to this.

Sevindust daily. Culling the bad ones, saving the strong. Cutting stems open, putting in tiny combs to physically keep them from going higher in the stem.
Some plants just being planted later, wouldn't be attacked because the SVB usually broods in mid May-June here....(though as early as Feb, late as Aug)

This year already seen bites on the stems, seen damage -inside- the stems...
So early on, sevindust. Was great with no rain for a week or two, so it stayed applied.
I knew it wouldn't be enough, no way.

Now, mentioned spent today staring straight at these SVB. They look like orange ladybugs, black spots.(around here).
Where were they? Right on the Zucchini and Straight neck Yellow Squash leaves...exactly where you don't want them.

So I went Rodney Dangerfield on them. Back to School.

Bacillus thuringiensis​

bT is a bacteria, soil growing that makes caterpillars stop eating in about 30 hours, and they die.
It's allegedly safe for us.

Specifically, Thuricide Ag. Concentrate.

Been applying it every 3 days to leaves, top and bottom, and hosing down the stems for every Zucchini, Str.Yellow Squash, Cucumber, Cantalope, Butternut and Watermelon...though Butternut is pretty resistant by itself.

My Trophy-level SVB colonies' saturations require more. So, the cucurbits are also being inoculated every three days with bT(Thuricide) in addition to the spray.

In case anyone tries this, inject into the Stalk of the leaf right above where it meets the stem. There is a U-shape in the middle of the 'top' center of the leaf stalk, like a celery stalk. The U-shaped channel will accept the volume of the syringe, almost anywhere else will usually spray it back at you when you withdraw the needle after injection.
You might also succeed in injecting the main stem nearer the growing tip, when the stem is greener, softer.

It's mixed at 3-4 teaspoons per gallon. One gallons sprays my area 8x30,20x20,2x10 twice, and injects once.

Meant to start spraying the bT first of May but it took Amz 2 weeks😡 to get it here...and that was enough time(and time of the year) for the SVB's to get into the plot.
Plants were clearly infected.
So now it's been about a week, and cloudy and rainy to boot. Kind of a hassle with having to reapply daily due to rain, and also giving them a 2 week window to chew in.....

But today i picked 1 Zucchini, 2 StrN Squash. Another Zuch, 2 Y.Squash certainly ready tomorrow.
No busted stems, no frass.
The yellow stunting in the lower stem, still there...but not rising...returning to vigorous growth in vine and stalk.
Flowering and Yielding.

Almost like it works like advertised? It's been about a week now, and the symptoms seem stopped/diminished, growth perhaps returning?

First year trying bT. Spraying is just normal, but injecting it is about all i can do after the Sevindust. I'm not putting in the combs, cutting open stems again.

It also stops those Tomato Hornworms that wipe out peppers and tomatoes over a single day.



But if it stops them from further harm, and the plant's vigor returns, will sure be glad to share the updates.

@djlew
I know what you mean about getting discouraged.

But i've done this awhile.(almost 50 Earth years) You'll have bad crops, bad seasons, bad years. Back to back bad seasons. Back to back bad years.

Now when you get to bad year, after bad year, year after year....THAT's when you realize that you are a farmer. And you should know, there is gonna be another year.
And it's going to be better, and it will.

The bad thing about farming is that you can do all the work one year and get barely enough back, if that. And sometimes, you got so much that you can't give it all away.

But you have to remember to take the good with the bad, never think you can get the reward without doing the work.
But when you do the work, and get the reward, you deserve it.

And maybe, just maybe there is a good year, and another good year after that. Maybe a few, then when you get a bad one, you just remember...all you can do is put in the work, hope nature helps you out...and wait until next year.

 

[djlew]

I know what you mean about getting discouraged.

But i've done this awhile.(almost 50 Earth years) You'll have bad crops, bad seasons, bad years. Back to back bad seasons. Back to back bad years.

Now when you get to bad year, after bad year, year after year....THAT's when you realize that you are a farmer. And you should know, there is gonna be another year.
And it's going to be better, and it will.

The bad thing about farming is that you can do all the work one year and get barely enough back, if that. And sometimes, you got so much that you can't give it all away.

But you have to remember to take the good with the bad, never think you can get the reward without doing the work.
But when you do the work, and get the reward, you deserve it.

And maybe, just maybe there is a good year, and another good year after that. Maybe a few, then when you get a bad one, you just remember...all you can do is put in the work, hope nature helps you out...and wait until next year.

Oh how true that is. I always try to tell myself this is supposed to be relaxing. Things happen. I am battling some aphids on my apple trees again and at this point, I just try to use what is in my control and try to take care of the problem. What happens after that, it is what it is!

So far, we have expanded our operation here as far as the veggie garden is concerned. We got all of our raised beds filled up and we have tomatoes and cucumbers that we got from starts a couple weeks ago. The growth has been explosive on those! Should have considered more spacing! I'll be on top of it regardless so hopefully not too much trouble.

The other beds are a combination of eggplant starts, pepper starts, zucchini, and we have beets and bush beans from seed just starting to germinate. I've heard some companion issues with beets and some others, so I will have to keep an eye on that and address it accordingly.

Lastly, for now anyway, I dug up some raspberry suckers that I am nursing to become new full plants. Also did the same with strawberry runners that started to root. We are using strawberries as a live border around our peach and apple trees, along with chives from seed.

We have a ton of other stuff going on in the orchard and garden. I'll get pics as soon as more exciting stuff happens but finally our front yard meadow is seeded, we put in some asparagus crowns, and the growth on our peaches has been amazing to see.

 

[begreen]

I was excited today to spot the first cantaloupes developing.

The greenhouse cuke is bearing well . This cuke is about 14" long. Will pick tomorrow

The plant is quite robust and heading to the rafters.

This is an interesting comparison. Two identical butternut squash plants started at the same time. The larger one has been under the portable greenhouse with the melon. Heat makes a big difference!

 

[begreen]

We are getting a lot of swallowtails this year. They love the red valerian (Jupiter's Beard).

 

[DuaeGuttae]

Thanks for all the pictures, folks. I really enjoy seeing what you fellows have growing.

What kind of swallowtail is that in the picture, @begreen ? It looks different from what I'm used to. Gorgeous flower and photo.

@burning VC , we had a lot of squash vine borer pressure in Texas. I used to cut the vines, inject BT, bury vines, all that good sort of stuff we gardeners do to keep our plants alive. We do have the borers here, but the big pressure that killed all my plants eventually last year was just plain squash bugs. The particularly liked a kousa squash I grew, so I used duct tape to catch them and remove eggs just about daily. They still defeated me. This year I'm taking a break from anything in that species and seeing how it goes. I also have some kaolin clay to mix up and spray if I need to. Right now I have flea beetles on my potatoes, but the plants can stand it. I still have my eggplants wrapped in paint strainers to protect them.

@djlew , it can definitely be discouraging at times. See the paragraph about squash bugs above. I remember once in Texas when I was struggling with diggers in my garden, and I went out and found all sorts of plants dug up and strewn about. I was so upset that I literally asked aloud, "Why do I even garden?" I then turned around and saw my first potato shoots, and that was the answer right there. There's just nothing like seeing the beginnings of a new plant.

I harvested some of my garlic this week, but some is still in the garden. Here are a few pictures.

The first is my remarkable harvest of German Red Garlic. I bought seed stock this year from a local organic garden shop, and the two others did great. This one mostly didn't germinate and even what did mostly died. Here was one round, not even a differentiated head. I'm mystified about it quite frankly, but I'm stubborn enough that I may see if I can store this and grow a head next year.

The marble by the way is about 7/8 of an inch across. It's in all the photos for scale.



This is a little of the Music garlic harvest. I pulled scapes a while back, and I checked these to make sure they weren't splitting. They weren't so most of the rest of the crop is still in the ground. This was another new variety, and I'm delighted with its growth so far.

This is elephant garlic, which I believe is a leek rather than a true garlic. I just wanted to give it a try, and it did well. I may plant the corms from the side to increase seed stock.


This last one is one of the four varieties that I sent from Texas to Virginia for my mom to grow when I knew I'd be moving up here. She's done very well with it, but the varieties had a spill in the garden at one point and got somewhat mixed up. I have two harvests with purple outer wrappers. One should be Viola Francese, a softneck, and one should be Shilla, a hardneck. I've never seen Shilla purple before, but it can apparently happen, so I'm testing the necks on these to see if one is more obviously soft than the other. It's not so obvious to me at this point.

 

[begreen]

What kind of swallowtail is that in the picture, @begreen ? It looks different from what I'm used to. Gorgeous flower and photo.

I think it is a tiger swallowtail.

I harvested the hardneck garlic this week. It's drying out now. The softneck still has a while longer to go.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

I think it is a tiger swallowtail.

I harvested the hardneck garlic this week. It's drying out now. The softneck still has a while longer to go.

That garlic is beautiful, begreen. How do you store it if it doesn't braid?

I decided to look into the difference between Eastern and Western Tiger Swallowtails since yours is decidedly different from ours, and I came across the Pale (Tiger) Swallowtail as a species that I hadn't known existed. I'm thinking that may be the one on your flower. It's a beauty.

Swallowtail Comparison & Identification Tips

www.butterfliesathome.com

 

[qwee]

I'm in zone 5b - so it just stopped freezing 3 weeks ago - my excuse for being late on the garden. I could have still started those cold hardy plants. Oh well, I 'm trying something new - burying jugs with holes in their bottoms for deep watering (H20 is 8-9" down). I noticed those DEF containers plant friendly design.

Hey that long tube can go down a long ways and they are free (DEF = cow piss). I buried a few of these, too. Water is the key factor where I'm at - mountain desert and low humidity. Most hybrid tomatoes but a couple heirlooms, too. I obtained some free plants so I crowded them. Once they get bigger, I'll mulch the top soil and install supports. My cats died (19 years old) so I buried their canned food below the roots (worm heaven?). I'm new to jugs. I made them with many holes (instead of one or two holes for the drip effect).

 

[djlew]

Cool idea! I considered doing something similar in my fruit orchard with old brewing equipment and buckets. I never got around to it and have just been hand watering for now with a 100ft hose. My wife waters her indoor plants with a terracotta spike and we just use wine bottles upside down to fill them. I have also considered that in my raised beds, but again just been hand watering. I am very curious if it makes a difference or is just easier and avoids overhead watering. I also just got a bucket-o'-worms, I already notice the soil is much more airy and fluffy. I think it helps.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

@djlew , if you search on "olla" in the threads, you'll find a number of various discussions on the terra cot pots I had buried in my raised beds in Texas. They worked well for me in that climate. You would only want to use them for annuals in your area since you'd have to lift them in winter.

I need to run now, but feel free to ask questions. This thread has some discussion starting around post 165, I think.

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May 17, 2020

My 2100 gallon cistern is over flowing to the tune of 1300 gallons per day. I can run rain birds most of the day and by the next morning the cistern is over flowing again. When I was growing up we never had enough water. When we first looked at this property, the water alone convinced me to purchase it.
I hooked up a cheap pump and pressure tank combo from Harbor Freight and have been squirting this stuff out of rain birds for 3 years to keep a green belt around the house we are building. A timer turns the pump on at night to water the garden.
With more time and a greener thumb, I...

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