Got water???????

[slowrev]

Junk,
It is so hot and dry here that the weeds are having a hard time growing. Seriously. I guess the farm and home store is not selling much roundup at all this year. Corn is about half height and fully silked out. Large 50 year old trees look wilted...Just plain bad dry.

Ben

 

[kensfarm]

I hit the switch for my creek water pump Tues. night.. let it run until sun up.. then turn it off in the day. We have highs of the upper 90's this week w/ 3 digit heat factor #'s.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Good one Don. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Junk, it's been dry here too - high 90's and triple digit heat index. It sure makes it tough to work outside. Any rain that's going around seems to miss out place. I'm really glad that I drilled the deep water well and installed the sprinkler system when we bought the place. Otherwise it would be a never ending job dragging hoses over a 4 acre yard. The downside is that I still have to cut the grass every 5-7 days in all that heat.

I don't have a lot of experience with drip systems although I have one rigged up to water my wife's vegetable garden. It's connected to the water well too. I'm still experimenting with it though so you've got much better advice elsewhere than any I could give you but one thing that I have found is to stay away from the small diameter soaker hose. Even with an in-line filter, they "blind" too easily and need to be replaced every few months or at least once a year.

 

[hobbyfarm]

Shoot Junkman,
Around here, people are scavenging their A/C drippins! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
After all, plenty of humidity in the air! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[slowrev]

Junk,
When I lived in FL I bought a Rain Bird ? drip kit from Home Depot.
It had little drippers of varying rates of GPH delilvery. Was small tubing with an adapter to connect to a hose bibb. I connected mine to the sptinkler system so I did not have to mess with truning it on and off. You could also get little sprinkler heads and such for it.
Worked well, had a dripper in each large potted plant outside and around ground plantings as well. The small tubing was easy to route and hide in the mulch. The kit was sort of a starter set and you could buy the rest of the stuff to add on to it.

Ben

 

[hobbyfarm]

Boy, I'm happy /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif to know this ain't the only desert around here! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I think I've got you all beat, my <font color="brown">cactus</font> is wilting!

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( .................I think I've got you all beat, my <font color="brown">cactus</font> is wilting! )</font>

Dilute one Viagra tablet in a gallon of water and pour around the bottom of the plant... If it stays straight for more than 4 hours, take it to the hospital emergency room or consult a whoarticultrist...../forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Junkman]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifThe rumor about town is the town wants to apply for a Federal Improvement Grant for blighted areas. My place is the closest to this that the town can find. As part of the overall plan, they are going to clean my place somewhat and then consider it a blighted slum. Now to my way of thinking, I have a grandfathered automobile salvage yard, Junkman repair facility for anything that might need repair-in, a cemetery with 6 permanent residents, museum of unknown miscellaneous artifacts from an era gone by, a butterfly and bumble bee refuge, and a natural wildlife preserve with all the deer, porcupine, raccoons, mice, rats, muskrats, beaver, bats, birds, bees, etc.. I, and the Lovely Mrs_Junkman are not going to leave without a hard fought fight, so we intend to pretty up the place a little bit to try to sway the Commission. The other thing going in our favor is that we are the sole remaining descendants of the long lost and rarely known Junkman Tribe of CT. This is our ancestral land and is covered with burial ground mounds of genuine junk. This is a picture of our home sweet home..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif