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August 8, 2007
Nothing tops pure, clean, rainwater for irrigating the vegetable garden, and I’ve had one of those fancy rain barrels used for collecting runoff water from rooftops on my wish list for a while now. I always thought they would be great for conserving water and to collect a handy supply of fresh distilled water to use in my bog garden, but Kevin just sent an email which raised an issue with collecting runoff in rain barrels that I hadn’t considered:
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July 30, 2007
Well, I guess all it took was a little talking it up to finally get a decent deluge of rainfall on the garden’s raised vegetable beds. Water has been a major topic of conversation on this website over the past few days; with the recent Fountain Review and the Newsletter’s focus on irrigating the garden.
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July 28, 2007
The latest issue of the Gardening Secrets Newsletter has been delivered to all of the gardeners on the e-mail list. Just in time for summer, the theme of this month’s gardening newsletter focuses on the process of irrigating the garden to prevent drought stress during those hot and dry summer months.
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Lizann: I started two fig trees from cuttings about 5 years ago. they are planted in large containers & grew very...
Luposian: I bought a small pot of Black Diamond watermelon plants and… for the first time in my entire life...
Dan Pittillo: I had peanut beans scorched in the sun beneath floating row cover. Has anyone else had this problem?
Jamie: When would be the best time to re-pot my fig tree. This is the 3rd year I’ve had it. I move it outside...
Ray: Hello Bart, thanks! I wiped the underside of my Goji leaves and have had no problem since. Cheers !!
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