Re: (watering)
- Subject: Re: (watering)
- From: T* P* M*
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:06:50 PDT
YO, stevo, it is not expensive and you can lay it down anytime. 8 bucks
for tubing and a buck for drippers. and jugs may work for you, I didn't say
they didn't work, they just are not as good, and if anyone has 10 bucks it
would be better than using milk cartons.
>From: SteveS012@aol.com
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: (watering)
>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:16:11 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/21/99 5:15:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>thepumpkinmaster@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Steve, all of your claims are rediculous. I am begining to think you
>are
> > a Bill Clinton Relative by your insane thinking and by the way you go
>off
> > the subject and lie. For one, 8 llbs is how much a full jug would
>weigh,
>
>Dang, dude! I don't even want to argue with you....I was just saying that
>milk jugs CAN work in some situations too, and they work better for ME. I'm
>sorry you don't feel that way, and maybe they DON'T work for YOU, fine! I'm
>not trying to push it on anyone! Sheesh! Man oh man....I think someone has
>a
>little too muich free time! Wow! Ha ha!
>
> > this will compact the soil and probably be more prone to disease. I
>also
>
>
>WHen I used milk cartons they did not compact the soil at all. I'm not
>"lying", they just didn't! Beleive it or not!
>
> > know exactly how much water and where it all goes. How could you say I
> > didn't. I also don't use a soaker hose, I use drip lines. You place
>it
>
>I didn't say you didn't!
>
>
> > down in the begining of the year and then you don't have to go out to
>it
>or
> > move it again. All I have to do is place the drippers into the tubing
>once,
> >
> > and put an extention on it to have the water go where I want in the
>amount
>I
> >
> > want. Drippers come in half gallon, gallon and two gallon per hour
>sizes.
>
>
>Good, I'm glad you can afford them, and laid them down before planting. If
>I
>could, I would do it too. But for those who do not have them laid down
>before
>the plants are big, and who cannot afford them, milk jugs do work well,
>since
>they did for me!
>
> > Also, it is a plus that they look better, don't play it off like it is
> > nothing, because if you are married it does matter.
> >
> >
>
>Uh, well, I'm not married! I am lucky that my only worry is to do whatever
>it
>takes to get the big pumpkin. Including floating row cover, plastic tenting
>in case of a frost, hot water jugs, rotating manure and compost piles,
>whatever it takes. The pumpkins are the priority for me, and whatever THEY
>like best is what thget, I don't care what it looks (or smells) like!
>
>
>
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