For someone who is newer to the intricacies of growing fruit and being raised in the suburbs, my knowledge of “irrigation” started with a garden hose and a sprinkler I ran through as a child. I never put any thought into it the last couple of years having pawpaws and a few raised beds, but after learning that our hanging baskets didn’t like months on end of drought without being watered every day, I decided this is the year to automate and save myself a large amount of time, time that I can spen…
My thread on irrigation might be a good place to start. I would figure out which trees need similar irrigation and put them in the same zone, and figure out how many zones you have. Some drip emitters are adjustable so you can have different amounts of water to trees in the same zone.
This is my present fertilizing schedule,that is saved on Notepad.It is not complete and I don’t follow every thing completely,because of weather,temperature and other variables where the original information came from,might be different than my situation and locale.But I think it’s a good general guide.I can always change or add to it as I add plants or find new or better ways of doing things.
I think Scott and or someone else may have posted theirs at one time.If anyone else has something,plea…
Brady has a great writeup on fertilizing.
Today I received my first delivery of wood chips from chip drop. very excited to get started by sheet mulching my beds that will be planted in early April. I’ll be planting Haskaps, gooseberries, and black raspberries. my plan is as follows:
lay out flags to determine size of planting areas
cut grass/weeds back with action hoe
scatter compost at planting sites. .5 bag per plant.
fertilize 10-10-10 at planting sites
cover sites with cardboard
mulch 4-6 inches deep
set up rings of fenci…
And Mike recently made a thread on sheet mulch you can reference!