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Nick

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #60 on: June 08, 2020, 06:55:46 PM »
Commodity Charge per 1000 gallons: $3.38


based on the time it took to fill 2/3 a 300 gallon tote, id say im using less than 1000 gals of water a week extra.   i can live with that for now.

If you are on sewer they also charge you a rate off of your water meter read

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #61 on: June 08, 2020, 06:58:26 PM »
im on septic, new system in 2016.

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #62 on: June 14, 2020, 03:08:52 PM »
ran two 100' rows of pex for watering.  not great results.  think i need about 5 times the water flow or i should have used smaller than 1/16" for my holes.

cleaning up the barn a little today, got into that crate of save o lot auction buy.  found two mechanical sprinkers that test good!  they might just do the trick for a little while. 

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #63 on: July 22, 2020, 08:33:08 PM »
havent been giving many updates but still working on this.  the weeds are crazy,  i kinda gave up on about 2/3s of the garden.  weeded around the strong and moving with those.  deer at 95% of my corn plants outside of the fense.  i guess that was a lesson and that my fence works lol

have been picking sweet pees for a couple weeks (had no idea i planted them- i thought they were pickle cucumbers) 
picked a few sample size of carrots and they are stubby 3" right now.  just picked the first full grown cucumber, a zukinni and a yellow pepper i missed tonight!  zukkini plants are about 3' around and tall.  i guess those do well. 

pumkin plants are 6-8' long and a few baseball size fruits are starting. 

have probably about 100 tomatoes that are going about golf ball size and green right now. 

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #64 on: August 09, 2020, 09:12:00 PM »
first hand full of red tomatoes tonight

zucchinis look like they are starting to die down. 

yellow peppers are coming back!

pumpkins are picking up! 

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #65 on: August 10, 2020, 10:03:47 AM »
My peppers are turning red and are super tasty




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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #66 on: August 10, 2020, 10:34:49 AM »
my seed-started pepper plants aren't doing anything interesting.

for next year here,
compost is building.
nothing is yet firmly planned. likely go raised beds due to soil and drainage. I'd like to do it on a higher area without ponding, so it could all get tilled in along with some horse exhaust and maybe make the ground habitable to things that like good soil instead of being stuck on raised beds forever. or maybe that's not so bad? I don't know, they just seem annoying since I can't drive a tractor through them.
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oh lord!

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Re: project vegetable garden
« Reply #67 on: August 27, 2020, 08:11:14 PM »
havent gone out in a few days with all this rain

pulled about 20lbs of tomatoes and zucchinis tonight!  still more going!