T-Tape, Your Experience
eric_wa
14 years ago
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Comments (22)Hi, I just saw the roses mentioned above at the Huntington Library, and thought I would share that of the list above, Geoff Hamilton, Molineux, and Tamora were beautiful, and Queen of Sweden took my breath away. Carding Mill and Gertrude Jekyll, not so much. I did not find the rest so appealing, maybe because they were all planted in full sun, who knows? Golden Celebration and WS2000 were amazing, but I don't recall how much they nod, definitely not as much as Abe Darby for sure. I think GC has both nodding and upright flowers, something that was mentioned in a post above. I didn't see Tradescant, but of the darker roses, only WS2000 had a clear beautiful color, not The Prince or Prospero. They were all a very blue red, more hot pink or purple than I thought they would be. WS2000 was more hot pink than purple, but the best looking of those three in Pasadena, California hardiness zone 9 or 10, sunset zone 20 or so. In other words, it gets HOT here, and sunny....See Morestoring t tape over winter
Comments (1)joanna, No experience here. But try this: Epoxy two plywood circles on either end of a plastic 5-gallon bucket. The plywood overhangs the edges of the bucket by 6". Fasten a handle crank on the plywood and start rolling up the tape. You could even fasten a stand for this thing and have several reels made up. In the Spring reverse the process. Voila. Aloha...See Moret tape
Comments (4)I have 2 parts to my garden, one being 9 - 2.5'x 20'L raised beds that I rotate the veges in each year so I designed a water system for each bed according to their needs with a screw on/off valve at each bed. As the veges get moved so do the corresponding water systems...it is very simple and has worked pretty good. The other bed is not raised, and gets covered in 4 - 15'x15' sections of black plastic with holes cut for the individual plants which contain corn, potatoes, squash and melons. The water system goes underneath the plastic and has not worked well as I had just drilled holes in the black poly and they have plugged with dirt. The soaker hoses, in the raised beds are getting old and will need replaced and are fairly expensive here compared to other methods. Plus there is a slight hill in which the bottom beds get more water than the top. The pressure coming off the mainline will be 25psi with my pressure reducer, but wicked 65+ without. Will likely have to only open the mainline valve part way. I also have a filter and backflow preventer. I have no problem using pvc, but I already have the 1/2 black poly so thought I might as well use it. I find it is the fittings that run up the $ tab, so wanted to use existing hardware that I already had if possible. I found some pressure compensating flat emitters that fit on 1/2 black poly (100 for $10.00)usually they are .25 each.....hoping would work and the existing hardware can be recommissioned. What do you think?...See MoreDo you close your milk cartons with duct tape or twist ties?
Comments (26)No duct tape for this girl. I use just 1 twist tie in the front to keep the top and bottom half closed. I also offset the holes just slightly so that there is a gap between the top and bottom. So when things start to dry out (usually 1st week of May here) I can use the hose sprayer and gently spray the side of the containers and the water runs in just fine. I also recycle my containers from year to year. I store them in the attic of the shed in black bags. That means that the next year I usually have at least 3/4s of my containers ready to go when it's time to ws. Sometimes the twist ties must be replaced but that's it. I found this method on this forum the year I started wsing and it has worked great ever since. Unfortunately, the post (with pics) has since disappeared....See Morerandy41_1
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