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Sunday, November 25, 2018
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Anyone else ready to skip straight to April? My sanity is very questionable to be working on pumpkin stuff year-round especially since I’m not the best grower... not even close.
Some basic pumpkin watering calculations...gotta post em so I don’t forget... if I wanted to water 150 sq ft with a half inch of water daily 24 half inch x 1 ft x 1 ft per 7.5 gallons = 3.2 square ft per gallon @ 1/2 “ = 47 gallons... I could see watering a larger plant with twice or three times this amount. Can’t wait to make some changes to my watering I might want to water different areas in the evening and in the morning so the overall watering is steady but still as infrequent as possible in any one area, to keep the soil and roots where I want them in terms of disease and nutrients. I should try this in my regular garden also... I could try flood irrigating every other forrow. Ought to work well.
Not really a fan of the various types of sprinklers any more. I’m excited to try something new next year!!!
The flood irrigation I did on Anna’s 1472.5 Sherwood plant turned out to be a real success. I tried it on Rosy’s plant a couple times also. I also tried it on my 8.22 plant which grew the 5.04 lb tomato and probably would have had a 6+ pounder if I had set it up earlier with careful flood irrigation then I think I would have avoided blossom end rot on a much larger blossom than the blossom which grew the 5.04.
There is no question sprinklers are bad for tomatoes and without a special setup the drip irrigation gets cold. The drip irrigation worked good though but I’ll save that for production... the competitive ones maybe I’ll just water by “small scale flood irrigation” aka dumping out water from a barrel or buckets.
I think this might be a positive edge for my competitive growing... This allows a lot of precision and options, like to water half the plant every other day so calcium uptake is more even. Or, like the pumpkins, water half the root zone in the evening, half in the morning. Worth a try, so really hope I get the chance to try to improve a lot in 2019.
I hope that I will only be watering my OWN plants next year.
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