Re: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00

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>
> Bill, what does one do to "prepare" a 55-gal drum for a water storage system
> in order to get the water out easily?  Your garden sounds lovely!   We are
> in 7 near Texas - Okla border NE of Dallas  ... Nickie
>
 
Dear Nickie,
Thanks for the nice comment about the garden looking nice but it is my first spring. Nothing has been planted yet!
 
The plastic barrels had soap and fat residue inside. I took them to the carwash and really washed them out well. Next step is to go to the plumbing store and get some plastic pipe and fittings to link the barrels together near the bottom of the barrels in order to have them behave like one large barrel (160+ gallons of rain water?) to the watering system. A tap will allow access to the water this year (to begin with).  I hope to install a watering system of soaker hoses to water the veggies in the future.
 
If you would like to see a drawing of the water storage system, you can see it at:

http://sqftjourney.homestead.com/Ideasfornearfuture.html
 
Have a great day,
bill missen.
 

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Missen <billmissen@sprint.ca>
>
>
> > I am in zone 3a- Alberta.
> > I have had Lavateras, Coral Bells, Petunias started in my new light bench
> > for about 4 weeks now. I yesterday seeded:
> > Sungold                 tomato
> > LemonBoy             tomato
> > Whopper               14 oz. beefsteak tomato
> > Brandywine           old amish tomato
> > Miracle Sweet        6 oz. tomato
> > Golden Cherry       sweet cherry tomato
> > gypsy                     sweet pepper
> > Blushing Beauty  sweet bell pepper
> >
> > Today I am busy preparing four 45 gallon barrels for a water storage
> system
> > to water my garden with. Found a stone bird bath cheap to perch on the
> birch
> > stump in the back yard. Plan to build a teepee over it with sweet pea and
> > canary vine for fun. Maybe a few sunflowers too. Do you think the birds
> will
> > like it?! lol!
> >
> > Looking forward to direct seeding peas, carrots, beets, onions in a couple
> > of weeks, weather permitting. It snowed for an hour today, then just
> melted.
> > sigh...
> >
> > On aside note, Vera and I are attending Campus Crusade's New Life Marriage
> > seminar this weekend. Let the fireworks begin.
> >
> > Keep the faith,
> > bill missen.
> > http://sqftjourney.homestead.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Mjrada@aol.com>
> > To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 1:36 PM
> > Subject: Sqft Gardener's Logbook - week of 4/3/00
> >
> >
> > > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > >
> > > I saw in a GardenWeb thread where someone initiates a thread for folks
> to
> > > simply write in their garden status reports for the week. Here we can
> > discuss
> > > what we've done, how things are going and what we expect to accomplish
> in
> > the
> > > near future as pertained to our gardens. Any takers who'd like to
> > contribute?
> > >
> > > For myself, there is not a lot to report from here in NE-Illinois. It's
> > still
> > > been rather cool and cloudy w/ days in the 50s and nights in the
> 30s/40s.
> > My
> > > radishes are up with 2 leaves but haven't changes much in the last week.
> > > Still no emergence from my spinach that was sowed 1 week ago. Inside,
> > > tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are coming along and up about 6",
> getting
> > a
> > > bit leggy.
> > >
> > > Have a great week,
> > >   Mike
> > >
> > >
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