We are back
from our vacation in Montana, and I am catching up on yard work and greenhouse
stuff this weekend. The most interesting discovery at home was in the
greenhouse, where I set up the automatic watering system at the last minute
before we left. It turns out that I missed one button push, so that it did not
actually water while we were gone. I thought that the plants looked a little
dry and heat stressed, but overall were doing well. So I went to adjust the
programming on the timer, and found my error. Normally the consequences of this
would have been a lot of dead plants. In this case though I have been experimenting
with a soil mix recommended in the book “Square Foot Gardening”, which is 1/3
each of compost, peat moss and vermiculite (exploded mica rock, which acts like
a sponge) and the plants made it through OK. So if you are going to be
gardening, I recommend reading and following his book.
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