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miguelito

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  1. I put my potatoes in the ground just before a decent freeze a while back. I know I lost some of them, but last week about 10 sprouts popped up, so I guess some of them survived. Northloop, that turned out pretty good. As the plants get taller, you won't even notice the fencing.
  2. Well according to Kim's pajamas ... I forget where I was going with this. 1
  3. That shit's always a week out.
  4. Check your googles. The trench is like 36,000 ft deep. Little known fact: "Mariana" is South Austin's mom's name.
  5. Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
  6. Holy shit, dude. That's good you got it figured out. I seem to get minor sinus infections every winter. I think some day I might need to get some work done. But for now, I also do the Flonase/nasal rinse/loritadine routine during cedar and oak seasons.
  7. The oak leaves are falling, and cars are turning yellow. But so far the actual oak counts have been low. Too low. The first reading (in San Antonio) was March 1. Since then we've had 1 day over 1,000. The total so far is under 6,000; the average total for a season is about 198,000. We're usually out of the 1,000 counts by April 15-20. So doing some math, we have a shitload of pollen to deal with in the next 3 weeks.
  8. I would go with the fence idea. Leaving the netting on the ground might be more of a hassle for you and for the plants, while not completely deterring the critters. You could also use the netting as a tent over the plants, but the tomatoes will make it pretty tall. My mother in law buries rose bush stems - with thorns - to keep the cats from digging in her plants. No mercy.
  9. It's not much, but it's something: https://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/get-involved/report-a-litterer/ "When you see litter thrown or flying out of a vehicle, intentionally or accidentally, take down the following information—license plate number, make and color of vehicle, date and time, location, who tossed the litter, and what was tossed. TxDOT compares the information through the Department of Motor Vehicles registration database, and when an exact match is located, we send the litterer a Don’t mess with Texas litterbag along with a letter reminding them to keep their trash off of our roads. And you can feel good about doing something to clean up our beloved Lone Star State."
  10. That sucks, man. You can do it! My wife got me one of these little rolling stools for the garden. It's nice when I'm doing stuff along the edges of the beds, but honestly I don't use it that much, especially when I need to reach further into the bed. But there are times when I'm glad to have it. https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Garden-Rolling-Scooter-Gardening/dp/B00NR1X42K?th=1
  11. I've tried regular soaker hoses, too, the ones that kind of sweat along the whole length. Just hook the main hose to a soaker hose, and wind it all through the bed. This gives good flexibilty, but mine kept getting holes in them, either from thirsty squirrels or just deterioration. I probably should have buried them rather than just set it on the surface.
  12. This little guy was watching over my strawberry bed a few weeks ago. He's sitting on a 2x, so he's maybe 3/4" long. I have them all around, and I try not to think about stepping on them. The weird part is, apart from the garden, the landscape is pretty dry: cedars, oaks, and grasses.
  13. I couldn't find a close-up, but you can kind of see the sequence here. I had to bring a section of pipe with me to the store to make sure everything fit. I also learned the difference between PVC and CPVC. I bought a few 'wrong' fittings at first. Basically I needed a hose adapter first. This had an end for the hose to screw into, and the other end was threaded for PVC. So then I needed an adapter for threaded PVC to non-threaded PVC. Then of course that size PVC was different than the size I was using, so I needed a 3/4" to 1/2" coupler (I think those were the sizes). Then a bunch of tees, elbows, and endcaps. Nothing is threaded after the hose connector. I don't glue any of the connections; if you just twist them tight, they won't leak. But so what if they do? I like being able to disconnect them and move them around. Just go see what they have at the hardware store, and think like MacGyver.
  14. Yeah, don't do what I did, I jammed a shitload into one box, lol. It's gonna be crowded in another month or so. My other beds were already spoken for. I got a 6-pack of sweet 100 tomatoes, 2 husky cherry tomatoes, 2 TAM mild jalapenos, 2 sweet peppers, 2 tomatillos. My onion bed was full, so a few extra onions got planted here. There is some volunteer parsley leftover from last year. And for good measure I sprinkled some basil seeds in the gaps, because basil is a good companion plant to tomatoes. 🤪 There's also a weird-looking weed that I'm letting grow just to see what it turns into. I might name it Audrey.
  15. At my old house, I had dug up some PVC sprinkler lines to add my raised bed. So I cut the pipes, drilled small holes into them every 6" - 12", alternating sides, and connected them with 10 cent fittings from Lowes. At my new house, I built a similar system. The hard part was getting the connection from the hose to the PVC. They make adapters, you just have to find the right ones. This was a lot cheaper than the kits you can get. The kits aren't expensive, but I'm cheap. I ran the pipes the length of the bed, and spaced them about 10" apart. The good thing with PVC is that it cuts easily, and you can adjust the lengths and spacings for whatever plants you have. I drilled 1/16" holes, 'cause that was the smallest drill bit I had. They work fine, but occasionally plug up; I just rinse out the lines every now and then. I have a timer for each bed, and I run it for about 15 minutes each bed, every day, or every other day depending on weather and plants.
  16. Monterrey Mexico has 2 r's. Monterey California has 1.
  17. NorthLoop, if you get good soil in there and add compost occasionally, you'll be amazed at how much you can grow in that one bed. I had one like that at my last house, and I always had stuff thriving in it.
  18. Damn. Might as well just lay back and enjoy it.
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