Re: Al Eaton (watering)
- Subject: Re: Al Eaton (watering)
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:59:17 EDT
In a message dated 7/17/99 11:26:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
thepumpkinmaster@hotmail.com writes:
> now is this for just the root area or for the enire area that the plant
> takes us. So would I take the square footage of my plant and apply that
> much to the main root or just the square footage of the root area and add
> water. Or should I water all around the plant even where there are no
> roots. I am very confused?!?!?!?!?!?
>
O.K., well of course where there are no roots, watering would be moot, and a
waste of water. So this would be over the entire main root area, (usually
about 10 x 10 feet or so), and you SHOULD have your vines buried so they form
taproots, so then you would water the area that the vines with the taproots
cover. Same goes for fertilizing, etc. If you really need to conserve water,
you can hand water or use a soaker hose along the vines with taproots, so the
area 5 feet wide or so gets soaked with an inch or more of water a week.
Also, I usaually use temperature controlled spring water from a well. Hot tap
water is added to the cold well water until it is lukewarm. Pumpkins are
really sensitive to cold water! I set up an extensive technological system
last year, and hopefully I'll get access to it up on a web page this year for
everyone to see. I even incorporate the use of Doppler Radar to track storms
in the immediate pumpkin growing area. Also there are probes for soil temp,
and other instruments for wind, humididy, temperature, percipitation, etc. I
wanted to set up a live Pumpkin Cam to everyone could watch the progress of
my pumpkins, but I don't know if I can do that. It would reauire another
on-site laptop to transmit the data back to here and over the internet, which
we don't have right now.
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