Walchit's Glog 2018

bpiela · May 11, 2018

Looks great! Also I like the homemade pot. Nice color!

nmlarson · May 11, 2018

Walchit said:
I might put that Robeson tomato in some of this horse poop today and see how it likes it before I put all the peppers in these rows and burn them up.

You'll love the Paul Robeson!

Devv · May 11, 2018

Dirt day!

I'm loving it

May the horse poop be with you :rolleyes:

Walchit · May 11, 2018

Thanks guys! Next step drip irrigation, any suggestions?

Edmick · May 11, 2018

I dont like drip irrigation. Just seems so impersonal.. It's like having someone else breast feed your child. Haha

Walchit · May 12, 2018

Yeah I'm not hand watering all this shit lol

Masher · May 12, 2018

Plants look fantastic. Great work.

The morels... holy mother of fungi greatness. I am envious to say the least.

:cheers:

Bhuter · May 12, 2018

Looking great, Andy! Dirt day! My plants weren't ready in time and now it's nothing but rain for the next week. I'll never get my garden tilled. But you're on it! Beds look fantastic! Scrumptious morels, too!

Walchit · May 12, 2018

I probably got lucky that we didn't have many April showers this year!

They are forecasting hail tomorrow, I'm a little worried.

Couple of the schwartzbeeren cot sunburned, I think this was the one my brother forgot to take, so it wasn't hardened off as much.

Guatemalan Insanity Pepper · May 12, 2018

Walchit said:
Morels

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Growdown throwdown yellow brainstrain in a diy fabric pot. Pretty sure it's made out of those napkins they use at fancy restaurants

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Planted so many plants today, hope they do good, I couldn't keep them watered outside in tiny pots.

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Masher said:
Plants look fantastic. Great work.

The morels... holy mother of fungi greatness. I am envious to say the least.

Bhuter said:
Looking great, Andy! Dirt day! My plants weren't ready in time and now it's nothing but rain for the next week. I'll never get my garden tilled. But you're on it! Beds look fantastic! Scrumptious morels, too!

i saw this on imgur the other day and thought y'all would get a kick out of it

ok clearly thats a kid holding that morel, but still that thing is crazy huge :crazy:

Walchit · May 12, 2018

I might have seen that morel, or one like it on these Facebook groups my wife is in, my brother found one the size of a milk jug about 5 years ago

dragonsfire · May 13, 2018

Wow, nice !! wish they grew around here, the store stuff has no taste unfortunately.

midwestchilehead · May 14, 2018

I get all my stuff from Dripworks. They have starter kits if you want to go that route.

Walchit said:
Thanks guys! Next step drip irrigation, any suggestions?

Walchit · May 14, 2018

You have the gallon per hour drillers? I was thinking about those adjustable ones that spray like 6 little streams or whatever

Devv · May 14, 2018

I'd love to hear the input on the drip irrigation. I hear that they have come a long way since I blew $200 on a system that clogged halfway through the season...

Walchit · May 14, 2018

Would definitely loose my shit if it clogged up.

Rajun Gardener · May 14, 2018

Are you using drip or tubing and nozzles? I just set up a system and used a 264HPH pump, 1/2" Poly for a main line and 1/4" drops. I rigged it to a 12" piece of poly capped at both ends and drilled 3/32" holes in it where I wanted it to spray. There's a TEE that comes with the pump that has a valve on one side to control the pressure. It works great but it isn't worth the time to build it if you can find something premade you like. I'm using a 27 gallon tote for a reservoir so I can give them juice.

I hope that made sense, I'll get a few pics later.

I have drip tape in the big garden and it should last more than one year without clogging unless you have rust and calcium in the water. Also check the emitters you buy if you go that route, some you can take apart to clean and others are disposable.

Rajun Gardener · May 14, 2018

I took some pics, it was late and some are bad but I wanted to show what I used. This shouldn't clog for a few years and if it does it's easy to clean out.

I use the same pump set up in the greenhouse for 22 dutch buckets, I had to cut down the pressure for these 14 containers.

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midwestchilehead · May 15, 2018

I use either 1/4 gal per hour or 1/2 gal per hour emitters on each plant (2 gal per hour on tomatoes). I'm transitioning over to drip tape, but I haven't fully implemented it yet. I use mini-sprinklers for the wife's flowers. And make sure you use an in-line filter so that you don't clog up your emitters with the stuff in city water.

Walchit · May 15, 2018

Was thinking of getting some of these

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B077RY1R5N/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1526398798&sr=1-15&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=drip+emitters

And some of these

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074LDWYDN/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1526398798&sr=1-16&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=drip+emitters

I was planning on running them straight into the 1\2 inch tubing. And maybe have some valves to run different rows at different times if I need to. My main concern is getting tees and valves and elbows that dont match my tubing.