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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Group Encourages Relocalization of Food
  • Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:34:16 -0700


The drip tape thing has been problematic for me. Too slow. Soaker hoses
seem to put more water where it's needed faster. My main hangup is the
length of beds. Due to a compound slope I made 3x8 beds to be able to level
each bed more easily. But soaker hoses are too long for 8' beds. I normally
water a row of six beds one day, then on to the next row of six and so
forth to the end of the fenced garden. In that mode I need to distribute
water evenly to six 3x8 beds at once using a timer, and then move the
feeder hose to the next row of six beds. And I need to cut my time spent
watering in order to quadruple production this year, but all the other
methods I've heard of involve some time. I need to spend the time seeding,
mulching, transplanting, and harvesting, not watering. No time weeding
mulched raised beds. And it may take three different markets to unload all
our produce, which means less time in the garden. Ah, the challenges of a
semiarid climate ;-)

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/5/2008 at 11:40 AM bruce smith wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for all the encouragement.. I just ordered some native edibles for
>my
>forest garden project. Beach Plums, Persimmons, and pawpaw's..
>
>I will be taking out some Norway maples in my small woodlot and replacing
>them with Shag bark Hickories, and a Black Walnut.. Black walnut will be
>going at the very Back corner of my lot replacing a dead American Elm..
>Fully aware of the Black walnuts issues and researching under canopy small
>trees, shrubs, vines, perennial edibles, and mushrooms that will be
alright
>to plant under it. Any suggestions?
>
>I will be planting sekel and a couple other pears within the areas I take
>out the Norway maples.. Under canopy small trees persimmons, shrub layer
>beach plums, red currents, service berries, mulched with wood chips.. With
>Wine cap mushrooms.. Vine may be Grapes and or Sandra Berries..
>
>I have a Sloping hillside which is planted on top with Bush cherries and I

>will be putting horse manure and wood chips down soon. Putting up a small
>hoop house soon and getting more rain barrels.. Setting up a gravity feed
>water system seeing I am on a South East running slope.. I will utilized a
>sears pump to run water to a good size water tank with a tap at the
bottom.
>each of the beds will get drip tape added this year.. Equipped with quick
>disconnects..
>
>The celery is up that I seeded and I will be buy onion seed ASAP..
>
>The Garlic I planed last fall looks like it is doing well.. The weather
is
>mild and then cold and then mild again.. About 43 degrees F today in
>SouthEastern CT.. zone 7?
>
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