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Re: Potato torture update


On Wed, 27 May 1998 00:06:28 EDT Meconella <Meconella@aol.com> writes:
>In a message dated 5/26/98 8:23:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>stanford4334@juno.com writes:
>
><<  I have a soaker hose watering the area
========================================================.  
>Hi Laz,  I mean Stan,

>I too water my garden with soaker hoses.  These are covered with a 
>thick layer
>of mulch.    My soaker hoses are all attached together with shorter 
>hoses and
>Y joints and are fed by one garden hose attached to a faucet.  I have 
>just
>discovered a cool way of fertizing my whole garden very easily.  At 
>the end of
>my watering cycle,  I attach one of those Miracle Gro sprayers on the 
>line,
>put in an amount of water soluble fertilizer,  and turn on the water 
>to my
>system.  When the fertilizer is gone,  I turn off the water.  I havent 
>yet
>figured out a schedule for this,  but it offers great possibilities I 
>think.
>Maybe you could do this with your potatoes.
>
>Janet.
>
>
Thanks Janet.  
     That's the setup I have too.   I use a timer right off the spigot.
I have one of the cheap ones, of course, which go on once a day.  This
keeps my garden alive when I am gone for a while. (and when I forget).
     My daughter gave me one of those Miracle Gro inline fertilizers but
I haven't hooked it up yet.  Looks kinda small.  It also says that it
must
use the special Miracle Gro fertilizer made for that system.  Do you know
if that really matters?  I am afraid that the normal Miracle Gro my clog
my
soaker hoses or something.  I can't see how though.  It does seem to
dissolve completely.  
     Anyway, I have a total of 440 feet of soaker hose on one line and I
still get
enough water pressure for the whole system.  Most
of it is in parallel with a poly manifold.  I also use a number
of Y connections and an inline plastic valves at each soaker hose to 
try to balance the system and to allow me to use less water where I want
to and increase the pressure to the rest of the system.  It also allow me
to turn off all but one hose and run through a cycle a second time
to an area which looks like it needs more water.
     OK, tomorrow I will go out and hook it up.  (that is if I decide to
get out of bed in the morning).  I also will take a look
at drastically enlarging the container.  It  doesn't look like it would
supply much fertilizer per plant in larger systems.
     Some of my soaker hose just lays on the surface, and some is
buried under about one to two inches of soil, and others are under
plastic mulch.  
     Thanks for your input Janet.  I was afraid that I might be the only
one addicted to soaker hoses.  

Stan    (shortened from Stanislazy when my ancestors came to the
new country).            The cheap and lazy gardener.

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