Deck Container Garden

The soil still appears to be too dry in the deck container garden. I doubled the watering again to 2 emitters @ 1 gph for 5 minutes twice daily.

This has been a wet summer and I thought it would be a good idea to get something that would let me harvest rainwater to supplement my automated irrigation system. I looked in a lot of places and talked with a number of hydro engineers and there doesn’t seem to be anything. I learned You [...]

I wanted a systematic approach to growing vegetables in my deck container garden. Part of pursuing that vision was an automated watering system and that has been completed.  Plants also need fertilizer, especially in a very compact deck container since there is very little natural soil. I researched and found a small automatic fertilizer system [...]

The soil continued to appear too dry so I doubled the water again! 2 one gph emitters 5 minute duration twice daily – 6AM and 6PM dual emitters! The beans sprouted on the deck garden. The cucumbers sprouted in the deck container. Tomatoes look good. Strawberries are coming along but raspberry sticks still show no [...]