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Re: Drip Irrigation

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Bill asked:

>I wonder if anyone on this list is actually using the watering method
>suggested in the book, hand watering each plant with a cup from a bucket. I
>did that for the first few years, but I guess my plot got too big when I
>moved... I recall that I was real happy with the results, and did find that
>the weeds and fungi were less likely to grow if I didn't broadcast water
>over everything.


In the Montreal community gardens barrels are filled with tap water and
allowed to stand; gardeners have access to big plastic watering cans and you
can plunge a pair into a barrel at a time, and carry them off to yer 200 sq
ft allotment...

Letting water stand has a number of advantages. The chlorine can escape, the
water can warm up, and you may even get some blue green algae fixing a
little nitrogen in the barrel...

I use an aquarium indoors now as my water warmer, dechlorinator, and water
enlivener for my houseplants and seedlings, with good results.

Outdoors I have a small enough home garden that I can water it all with a
big oscillating sprinkler; I guess I plant things pretty tightly so I want
all the soil to get watered, and my view of soil is that it is all alive and
if I have exposed it so it can dry out, it's on me to water it to make up
for that, although I do leave bare spaces so the birds can take dust baths
from time to time....

I also use outdoors, a watering wand and the fogger setting on my nozzle for
watering things that need extra...

This year I hope to set up a rainwater collection system off the house
gutters so that I will draw even less treated water for gardening; I believe
rain water is best!

I also will make continued extensive use of mulch, which reduces watering
needs greatly.

Frank---has a drip soaker hose that he uses sometimes, but no drip system in
his clay/compost garden soil....


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