People with acreage how do you water ?

[Smart Red]

Reminded by @Jared77, I do have nearly a dozen plastic gallon fruit-juice containers that I 'borrowed' from school after a family buffet. I poked holes into the top, fill with water, and turn upside down for drip draining around some plants. Water leaves faster with lid a bit loose and slower with lid tight.

 

[Nyboy]

Before sprinklers here is system under ground I used

 

[Nyboy]

Sorry about bad photos. Inside is red lever that turns water off for winter, pipe comes threw wall then down under ground ( getting nephew to dig trench hardest part) 3 photo all the way across yard is blue shed where out side faucet is. in late fall I turn red inside lever off , then turn outside faucet on and let water drain. I know pipe should really be blowen out but I chance it. Cardboard on ground in 3 picture to kill grass, thats what note about

 

[thistlebloom]

You have pretty property Nyboy.

 

[Nyboy]

@Ridgerunner here any pet shop has whats called feeder fish, goldfish are 10 cents to 25 cents depending on size, minnows are 6 cents. not only do they eat mosquitoes, but their waste add fertilizes the water.

 

[Nyboy]

Thanks Thistle that's my side yard. You can see the grass is kept cut, old lady across street doesn't like that I am using cardboard to kill grass around patio.

 

[majorcatfish]

@Nyboy to help everyone out fixed your photos so we not need either stand on our heads or turn our monitors on their side....

 

[Nyboy]

Thank you major much better!!

 

[Beekissed]

We don't water. I remember in really droughty years carrying buckets of water from the spring and giving each tomato plant a cup of water but nothing since then and I was a young girl then...that was a HUGE garden.

We normally just provide plenty of moisture retention nowadays and let nature take its course, as we are on a well and when we are in drought enough to have to water plants, one doesn't want to deplete their only water source. Normally we try to encourage plants to root deeply so they won't require watering, as we have found that if you start watering too soon, you'll have to water from then on out.

That's also one reason we can as much as we possibly can grow or get our hands on each year, just in case the next year is a year of no garden...too dry, too wet, blight, you name it, we try to can enough to prepare for at least one year of no production.

 

[digitS']

I've been thinking about two things regarding irrigation.

First, protect your digitS'! Can there be anything harder on the skin of your hands than dragging a muddy, heavy hose around the garden? Wear gloves.

Second, what is this malarkey about a "no kink" hose bib? It actually says that on shelves at Lowe's.

There can be a no kink hose, maybe. But, the cheap "low thread, low metal" hose bibs for damnably cheap hoses are wretched! Have to use 2 washers on a hose fitting or it doesn't find enough threads to seal.

Steve