Ugly tomato garden. - Page 2

dcarch · March 10, 2008

Be very careful with that laser thing, if you want more children

Nice work !

dcarch

elkwc36 · March 10, 2008

Worth,
What two weeks will you be gone in May?? May have to make a little trip to Texas then!!!!!!!!!!

Tomstrees · March 10, 2008

sure looks like it will work to me Worth!

Good growin!

~ Tom

Worth1 · March 10, 2008

It came a gully washer and took out the far left side of the garden right where I was going to plant cucumbers.

all of THAT soil is now about 10 feet from the garden in a big pile.

All of the radishes and lettuce have shifted to the left.

I think some strawberries have gone wild.

The small terraced tomato holes worked out fine they stayed put.8)

No idea where the okra will come up.

I have put in dams and stove wood to slow down the flow of water.

I have to laugh I look at it as an omen for a great garden.

Worth

jwr6404 · March 10, 2008

Worth was the Tomatoes from your Horrible Catastrophe planted in this Ugly Garden?

amideutch · March 11, 2008

Worth, your right about the garden. But I think you will get some tomatoes out of it anyway. Better ugly tomatoes than no tomatoes.

Ami

dice · March 12, 2008

I was reading this document on tree-growing in Pakistan
(fruits, nuts, etc). They plant the trees in what are
more-or-less one tree raised beds, and they have shallow
trenches between them for irrigation water. They open
flood gates from some kind of canal and flood the trenches
every so often to water. (They let grass grow in the trenches,
mow it, and pile it around the trees for mulch.)

Something like that might be useful in places where
you have gully washers, not so much to let the water
in for irrigation (drip systems, etc), but to let it out
when you get a downpour. One might have to line
them with gravel, or use some deep-rooted permanent
cover crop in them so that they don't get deeper
every time it rains.

I imagine that it helps if the land where the beds
are has a slight grade (side trenches can be the same
depth all along them).

March 10, 2008	#16
dcarch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NY Posts: 2,618	Be very careful with that laser thing, if you want more children Nice work ! dcarch __________________ tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato

March 10, 2008	#18
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	sure looks like it will work to me Worth! Good growin! ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

March 10, 2008	#20
jwr6404 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: University Place, WA Posts: 481	Worth was the Tomatoes from your Horrible Catastrophe planted in this Ugly Garden? __________________ Jim

March 11, 2008	#21
amideutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Germany 49°26"N 07°36"E Posts: 5,041	Worth, your right about the garden. But I think you will get some tomatoes out of it anyway. Better ugly tomatoes than no tomatoes. Ami __________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘...Holy Crap .....What a ride!'

March 12, 2008	#22
dice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: PNW Posts: 4,743	I was reading this document on tree-growing in Pakistan (fruits, nuts, etc). They plant the trees in what are more-or-less one tree raised beds, and they have shallow trenches between them for irrigation water. They open flood gates from some kind of canal and flood the trenches every so often to water. (They let grass grow in the trenches, mow it, and pile it around the trees for mulch.) Something like that might be useful in places where you have gully washers, not so much to let the water in for irrigation (drip systems, etc), but to let it out when you get a downpour. One might have to line them with gravel, or use some deep-rooted permanent cover crop in them so that they don't get deeper every time it rains. I imagine that it helps if the land where the beds are has a slight grade (side trenches can be the same depth all along them). __________________ -- alias

March 10, 2008	#17
elkwc36 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: SW Kansas Posts: 339	Worth, What two weeks will you be gone in May?? May have to make a little trip to Texas then!!!!!!!!!!

March 10, 2008	#19
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	It came a gully washer and took out the far left side of the garden right where I was going to plant cucumbers. all of THAT soil is now about 10 feet from the garden in a big pile. All of the radishes and lettuce have shifted to the left. I think some strawberries have gone wild. The small terraced tomato holes worked out fine they stayed put.8) No idea where the okra will come up. I have put in dams and stove wood to slow down the flow of water. I have to laugh I look at it as an omen for a great garden. Worth