Re: low tech feeding/watering
Steve Solimon refers to this as "firtigating" in his book
"Water Wise Vegetables". I've been doing it with everything
in the garden exept the AG using a 5 gallon bucket with a
3/32 hole drilled near the bottom. It's all I've been using
in the nonirrigated corner of the garden. They get
firtigated every two or three weeks and thats it. Corn
(mandan bride & painted mountain) and red russian kale, and
comfry are the only things doing well, some charleston hot
peppers are surviving, but probably won't produce. This is
all to provide more H2O for the big sissy AG, It's very dry
out west this summer.
Matt
--- Chad and Angela Zimmerman <zimathome@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Sounds like what I'm doing, I have an old freezer I mix
> my water/fertilizer
> in and have it constant drip to the plants. Seems to be
> working so far.
>
> Chad L. & Angela L. Zimmerman
> zimathome@colbyweb.com
> Colby, KS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard" <Rocwandrer@pivot.net>
> To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:16 PM
> Subject: low tech feeding/watering
>
>
> > SO i thought i might try and add something to make up
> for all my questions
> of
> > late.... :-) I don't know a whole lot though, so i
> will put this out
> there to
> > any other parsimonious AG growers and hope it is either
> useful to someone,
> or
> > doesn't take up much bandwidth :-)
> >
> > I take a milk jug, fill it with a solution of
> fertilizer and water (or
> just
> > water), put the cap on, set it near the stump of the
> pumpkin (i have
> mounts
> > with a "moat") and poke a pin hole in the side about 1
> inch from the
> bottom.
> > then i poke another hole in the cap, and after the
> first rush of fluid,
> the
> > pumpkin gets a slow even watering or feeding. varied
> hole size gives
> different
> > flow. my plants are basically hydroponics due the the
> horrible quality of
> our
> > soil, and my not owning the land to prepare last
> season. my plants did
> not
> > grow until i started doing this. milk jugs are free, I
> had the fertilizer
> > already, i am cheap :-)
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > --
> > To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of
> junk. --Thomas Edison
> >
> >
> >
>
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