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thepodpiper

thepodpiper

Just wanted to share some pics of the progress in the garden. I have all the rows where they need to be and now I am starting to lay down the manifold for the drip irrigation system. After that is done i will lay out the black plastic to keep the weeds and grass from coming back plus it will heat up the soil some. When the drip system gets here I will lay that down. I will be using 1 GPH emitters for everything so I am putting in ball vaves where needed so I can turn off the water to whatever section does not need the water. I am also putting in a controller so that I do not have to worry about turning the water on and off because the melons will need water every day. I am really not looking forward to putting in all those emitters.

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Dale
 
Looking great Dale...If I build beds this fall for next year, I will use a similar set up....just have to figure where the beds will go and how many...
 
You guys are making me question my upbringing.:onfire:

Check the ground first and add lime if necessary. Add ferilizer and disc it. Put plants in the ground once it got warm enough. Plow the ground once or twice, until the plants got big enough to cover the ground. If it doesn't rain enough, water it (just the garden part - not the tobacco fields). Add fertilizer after the plants get six inches tall and harvest the crop in summer or fall, whenever the stuff is ripe.

Don't get me wrong - I understand the hobby side of it and the idea to maximize the output. And if I was much younger, had the time and energy and treasury, I might try this. But I can't shake the farm boy part out of my mentality.

But keep on keeping on guys! I love reading about and seeing your projects.

Mike
 
wordwiz said:
You guys are making me question my upbringing.:onfire:

Check the ground first and add lime if necessary. Add ferilizer and disc it. Put plants in the ground once it got warm enough. Plow the ground once or twice, until the plants got big enough to cover the ground. If it doesn't rain enough, water it (just the garden part - not the tobacco fields). Add fertilizer after the plants get six inches tall and harvest the crop in summer or fall, whenever the stuff is ripe.

Don't get me wrong - I understand the hobby side of it and the idea to maximize the output. And if I was much younger, had the time and energy and treasury, I might try this. But I can't shake the farm boy part out of my mentality.

But keep on keeping on guys! I love reading about and seeing your projects.

Mike
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Mike, I'm not sure I follow you but this is out of pure time saving I don't have the time to water a garden this size. I'm not trying to maximize output, with 300 plants in the ground I will have more than I will know what to do with. It is going to be fun watching the whole thing work though (hopefully).

Dale
 
No matter what you're hobby is, sbd else will always take it a little further. Fun is important and as long as the way we're growing our peppers is fun to us, no method is better or worse. As long as I enjoy what I am doing, my mehtod is good for me and that goes for everybody IMO. :)
 
Dale, all I can say is hope you have a tractor to turn all that dirt. Your irrigation looks great. When is your plant out date where you live? Your garden is going to be beautiful again this year.
 
Dale,

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the way you or AJ are doing it - I think is'g great to see the ideas and systems you guys are using.

But we me lacking the time to set it up and the money to buy all the stuff, I do the watering the old-fashioned, easy way. Set a sprinkler in the garden, turn the water on and let it run for 20-30 minutes while I'm working on something else. Move the sprinkler and do the same thing again.

Last summer was an abberation in that it was so very much drier than normal. Usually, I need to water the garden maybe twice a year due to lack of rain. I suspect that I will need to water the plants in pots more frequently, but I'll only have about 60 of them. The rest of the plants will be in the ground.

Mike
 
Awesome setup Dale! I am a total newbie to growing peppers and pretty much gardening in general but I love to see these great gardens.

It is also especially cool to see the solutions engineered to make it easier to take care of those large gardens.

Keep the pics coming!
 
wordwiz said:
You guys are making me question my upbringing.:onfire:

Check the ground first and add lime if necessary. Add ferilizer and disc it. Put plants in the ground once it got warm enough. Plow the ground once or twice, until the plants got big enough to cover the ground. If it doesn't rain enough, water it (just the garden part - not the tobacco fields). Add fertilizer after the plants get six inches tall and harvest the crop in summer or fall, whenever the stuff is ripe.

Don't get me wrong - I understand the hobby side of it and the idea to maximize the output. And if I was much younger, had the time and energy and treasury, I might try this. But I can't shake the farm boy part out of my mentality.

But keep on keeping on guys! I love reading about and seeing your projects.

Mike
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very nice set up 'piper - I hope you remembered to laser level the site also :P
 
Great idea --- I was thinking of using spray heads at diferent intervals same idea albeit mine will be smaller in scale. Looks great
 
Well I have the manifold and the controller done and all of the lines in I just have to place all the emitters in. That job is going to be time consuming. One really good thing about this set-up is I can fertilize through the system. Next i will get my Black plastic mulch down.

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Dale
 
Have'nt been on the forums lately but I have been busy in the garden, thought i would post a couple of pics of the progress. All the peppers are going crazy but not many ripe pods yet. The melons and the tomatoes are growing out of control, I have many toms in the 20 to 30 oz. range can't wait for them to ripen. Hope you enjoy the pics.

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Dale
 
All that hard work is paying off Dale...well done my friend...
 
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