Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Western]

Looks good Jim:thumbsup: Wish you would have stayed out, it may have rained more!!!

One question, Is watering with a cage really that tough:laughing:

 

[jinman]

One question, Is watering with a cage really that tough:laughing:

No, watering is not hard, but getting the drip hose :raindrop::raindrop::raindrop: routed through 55 cages is the PITB. Being able to move the hose easily and keep the soil aerated is the big advantage with the netting. I'm just trying to make all jobs easier from setup to production and then teardown in the fall. With the netting, I can roll it up and put it in my container barn. With cages, I have to stack them outside the garden and let weeds, briars, and poison oak grow up in them. I just want to work on making the garden grow instead of labor intensive jobs like putting up and taking down cages and then having to work around them.

 

[Western]

I could see the difficulty using drip hose.:thumbsup:
I dont pull my cages usually until the ivy, briars are not growing anyway and stack in a corner of the garden. I think if I mulch good, I shouldnt have to weed or till much, (fingers crossed)

 

[sseelhoff]

Started the barbeque. Here comes the rain. For my next trick, I'll wash the car.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Storm near Fredericksburg a few minutes ago claimed 3.5" hail.

 

[farmgirl19]

Not even 1/4 inch of rain here. I was doing the darn dance in Tarrant County, since I was working over there today. Oh yeah, we got rain there, but not more than enough to wet a sidewalk here, and sidewalks were dry by the time I went out for the evening chores..

 

[sseelhoff]

Storm near Fredericksburg a few minutes ago claimed 3.5" hail.

I'm hoping the rain makes it this far.

 

[Western]

I think I got just over .10", (if I jump hard on the deck to make it move in the gauge!) Looks like it will be "slim pickens"

 

[txdon]

Rain to the north, rain to the south, rain to the east, rain to the west. All we are getting is leftovers = 1/10th".

 

[Bird]

I got about 0.05" of rain yesterday and a 20% chance again today.

 

[jinman]

I got enough rain to wet my deck twice. It was the kind of rain that carwash owners love.

 

[sseelhoff]

.7" in the gauge overnight. It's getting very dark outside. About to take on another band of showers(?)

 

[txdon]

The Pool in now open - that ought to bring the rain.

 

[sseelhoff]

The rain has stopped, the clouds have parted, and we have bright blue skies. This is not supposed to last long. More storms likely this afternoon and evening. The last cell dropped .10".

 

[Western]

So far, I haven't received any more, not a drop. Maybe the .10 I did get, will do the native vegetation some good.

Have our 3rd Bunting showing up now, real nice to watch birds that you wouldn't have thought lived out of the "tropics" :laughing:

 

[farmgirl19]

No extra rain here either, and the sun is shining. *sigh*

 

[pacerron]

Well, the rain dots have again connected on my deck and it looks like it is still increasing in intensity.:thumbsup: I was in the garden putting up a trellis net and decided I should call it quits before I got soaked. I've never used this netting before, but I saw it online and bought one 5' x 30' net for around $13.50. I think that is way overpriced and found the same netting on a roll of 365' from Memphis Net and Twine for less than 1/2 the price per running foot. I ordered a roll and plan to put it on both sides of my tomatoes starting bout 2' above the ground. The net I bought was 3-1/2' tall instead of 5', so it will fit nicely on 6' t-posts and my 6' bamboo while leaving a gap at the bottom to till and water without the hassle of cages. I'll use line between the nets where required for support across the row. Here's a photo of the trellis net on one row of sweet peas. I drove PVC pipe into the ground and just dropped in the bamboo poles. It worked great.

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Jim,
Hope this works well for you. Are you planning on saving the netting for year to year use?

We tried a similar method one year and at tear down, clean up time, the branches were so entangled in the net, that after wasting a lot of time on the first row
trying to clean the stuff out of the net, we ended up just ripping it all up together and burning the whole mess.
That's why we went back to the simple twine method, as it is easy to cut at the end stakes and just pull through the branches and roll up. Any that is too entangled
just gets cut off and removed with the plants.
Ron

 

[bindian]

We got hammered last night at Hobby Airport and there was street flooding around Houston. I came home after hearing Conroe (8 miles away) got 2.57 inches expecting a lot in my guage. .10 is all we got overnight. But it is doing a nice slow steady rain now. Weather dude says some of the scattered storms might do some training (sp). Which will suit me just fine.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

We have another sign of Spring/Summer lately in my neighborhood. We've always had plenty of squirrels in the area, but the last couple of weeks, we've got very young, small squirrels running everywhere and a large number of them run over in the streets. I guess that's something they have in common with humans; the young ones haven't learned to watch out for cars.:laughing:

 

[Lou66]

I got one and quarter inches of rain today at the ranch/farm.. within one hour period,, I was in the back pasture mowing and decided to just set it out.. found a nice place to park and listen to the radio and drink a cool diet coke while eaten my lunch.. with the lighten and rain it was a nice show.. I was over long before the rain, wind and lighten,, drove back to the barn put things up and came home.. where the sun was shining.. make have got a quarter of a inches here at the house in Lake Jackson.. unbelievable ten miles between two places and the different of inch of rain.:confused3:. I will take it.. Lou