Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Plants, Seeds and drippers:

Finished up with seeds and drippers on Sunday. Since our hottest, sunniest weather runs from now through the end of October I'm not worried about starting so late.

I converted one of the old sprinkler valves to run a drip system with a Rainbird combined pressure reducer/filter assembly. Each plant or seed group has emitters. When I get to it I'll also convert the side yard to drip and at that time do some changes to the existing drip system. With the old sprinkler risers there are lots of access points to connect drip distribution manifolds. The sprinkler lines are about 9 years old PVC.

Ideally I will have all the shrubs and trees on an infrequent/deep watering schedule and the annuals/veggies on a more frequent schedule. When the Metropolitan Water District gets more money for their rebate program I'll get a fancy irrigation controller that adjusts based on weather conditions.

Here's the plant list
Non-edibles:

  • Bamboo "Alphonse Karr"
  • Mexican Feather Grass
  • Some shrubs that I don't know the names!
Herbs:
  • White Lavender
  • Prostrate Rosemary
Trees:
  • Lemon Meyer- Existing tree near house
  • Lemon Meyer "Improved"- additional tree because they're so good.
  • Limon/Key Lime / Mexican Lime (Moved from a shady spot where it wasn't growing)
  • Pomegranate
Already in the ground or transplanted from starter containers:
  • 3 Tomatoes (volunteers from my compost pile)
  • 6 Anaheim Chilies
  • 6 unknown Chilies
  • Zucchini
  • Crook-neck squash
  • Strawberries aka slug food.

Seeds in raised bed:
  • Beets
  • Onions
  • Red-stem Chard
  • Green-stem Chard
  • Kohl Rabi
  • Italian Parsley
  • Carrots
  • Radishes
Only about 2/3 of the raised bed is planted. In about a month I'll plant salad greens and sugar snap peas.

Seeds in front beds (2 hills each)
  • Watermelon
  • Pumpkin
  • Cucumber "lemon"
  • Winter squash (name??)
Back and side yards already have:
  • 6 tomato plants (assorted varieties)
  • 6 zucchini
  • 3 crook neck squash
  • row of bush beans
  • Nectarine tree
  • Cherimoya tree
  • Hass Avocado
  • Fuerte Avocado
  • More Strawberries
  • Basil
  • Mint

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