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.