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Re: Mel and So. Cal. problems

Hi, Shawn--

     My garden is on hillside of decomposed granite, with 50 years of
incorporating manure and compost and mulch.  For the fruit trees, I use
overhead sprinklers that reach 5 to 10 feet beyond the drip line, and run
for an hour every month (spring/fall) or 10 days to two weeks (hot summer).
For vegetables and berries, I augment this with the "weepy hose" soaker
hoses (NOT the hoses with holes punched every inch or so) covered with a
minimum of 2" mulch.  Just run the hoses so they're a foot and a half apart,
on either side of plants, so water seepage from both will meet in the
middle, at the plant, and "pull" roots to the saturated soil.  With an
automatic timer, they're the most efficient I've found.

     I developed this system while in Davis--with totally clay soil.  It
works the best everywhere--just a matter of retiming the frequency and
length of watering time per soil and weather.



At 12:24 PM 4/10/97 PST, you wrote:
 I am using
>soaker hoses, but I'm not sure that they are the best solution...
>Shawn
>swestaway@smtplink.coh.org
>Claremont, Ca USDA9b Sunset19
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