I went to order organic potatoes this year and they were ridiculously high priced. I checked several suppliers and they were even higher than Fedco. So it was decided no potatoes this year. Just curious how much you paid for yours?
When I ran the drip irrigation for the little trees, they were in a line so I ran it in a line. The last 4 or 5 at the end didn't get much water, though the pressure I think is 70 lbs.
So I set up a system sort of like yours with the diverters and watered each section at a time. I'd set a very obnoxious long ringing timer, so I could hear it through the house or in the yard. I let it run an hour or 2 hours, depending on how dry it was, and turn off that section and on the next.
Your beds look great and you are far ahead of me in the gardens. I've had too many projects to finish before I can start...
We paid $7.98 for three pounds of the seed potatoes, which I didn't feel was too bad in today's market. Heck, everything cost a heck of a lot more than it did last year.
That is also my concern, certain plants not getting enough water. When we watered by hand we knew that all of the plants had the water they needed to prosper.
That is the one thing that we are still wrestling with, just how long do we leave the water on for each section? We started out with 45 minutes for the potatoes and just a half hour for the other two beds. I need an obnoxious ringer like yours. Right now we set the time on Alexa and on the stove timer, both of which are not very loud. We're looking to save water, and all we have to do is forget to turn the water off just once and we could run our well dry.😟
We've got all of the beds ready to plant and have planted the crops that don't mind the cold, potatoes, beets, and lettuce. With the temps forecasted to drop into the low thirties for this coming week, it may be a while before we can plant the rest.