Monday, September 13, 2010

Some Transplanting

This weekend Dierdre and I transplanted all the beans and zucchini, and planted the green onions, onions, carrots, and some sweet potato chunks that had sprouted in the pantry! We'll see if they actually grow. Everything else is coming along quite nicely, with at least the cucumbers ready to go in by the coming weekend.

I also punched the holes in the irrigation tube and tested the system out. It is now operational and seems to work fairly well.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Irrigation

We did quite a bit of work this weekend. On Saturday we borrowed a rototiller and tilled all the beds. I also found free horse manure on CL, and the people even have a tractor to load up your truck. That was much easier and cheaper then buying 30 bags of the stuff at the big box store. So all that got mixed in with the tiller as well. Then today I installed drip line and a timer/filter/inline fertilizer deal. Should significantly simplify the watering and fertilizing process this year.