Fixed the well pump yesterday. Problem was the piping before the pump. Installed a metal tap for the fertilizer injector and it's working much better.
The 50 lb bag of iron sulfate came yesterday. Applied a good amount of that and used sulfuric acid in the fertilizer injector last night.
Having problems with some of the pumpkins. My first giant pumpkin died off. Looked like the vine broke. However, other leaves have been showing signs like they're being attacked by something but haven't been finding more squash bugs. No signs evident of vine borers. Have to keep watching. It's almost all on the edges of the garden, so maybe daughter stepped on some of them? Or just the heat.
I need to replace some of the soaker tubing. In some places I used porous tubing and it's not working very well at all. Get some more of the other type later in the week.
Some of the newer plantings are looking really good now. Coming up quickly. Giant blue corn, pumpkin and green beans.
Found out the timer is restricting water flow too much in the back. Okay for the front, which covers a lot less space. For the back, need to get a high flow timer or split things into more zones. For the moment, I'm just running irrigation manually, which works well. I am leaning toward making more zones. Easier to maintain water pressure for flooding areas that way. Figure out configuration later.
The 50 lb bag of iron sulfate came yesterday. Applied a good amount of that and used sulfuric acid in the fertilizer injector last night.
Having problems with some of the pumpkins. My first giant pumpkin died off. Looked like the vine broke. However, other leaves have been showing signs like they're being attacked by something but haven't been finding more squash bugs. No signs evident of vine borers. Have to keep watching. It's almost all on the edges of the garden, so maybe daughter stepped on some of them? Or just the heat.
I need to replace some of the soaker tubing. In some places I used porous tubing and it's not working very well at all. Get some more of the other type later in the week.
Some of the newer plantings are looking really good now. Coming up quickly. Giant blue corn, pumpkin and green beans.
Found out the timer is restricting water flow too much in the back. Okay for the front, which covers a lot less space. For the back, need to get a high flow timer or split things into more zones. For the moment, I'm just running irrigation manually, which works well. I am leaning toward making more zones. Easier to maintain water pressure for flooding areas that way. Figure out configuration later.
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