The view of one of the student gardens. This area is mainly gravel about a foot down, so it isn't doing all that well.
The plow still stands how Wendell left it in April, haven't been able to get back to it.
a view of some of the sunflowers-they really suffered in those 5 days without water. Alot of things did. The potatoes were doing great until then, then they also dried up. They taste great, but they are just baby sized. It was a good lesson though, in what will happen to our food supply if we don't have water for irrigation.
part of the chicken yard
more sunflowers
This was a few weeks ago-the river is REALLY down already. While there are always some areas that have water due to a spring, the river does not flow from maybe September onto the first rains (November/Decmember) usually. So we will not be able to use it for irrigation. We looked at some bucket/drip tape irrigation and have some coming on the next container, but we've been told we will probably have problems with rats chewing the line. We did talk to a guy about an irrigation system that is self-contained with it's own little motor and a borehole/well, but that is somewhere between $25-30,000!
more garden mounds
One of the views of the garden beds
Some of the monster carrots we grew
1 comment:
Hi, with a gravel subsoil it sounds like you need a good deal of compost to retain the maisture in the upper soil.If you get started now with a compost pile it should be ready for next years garden. It's what we have to do down here in Florida
phillip
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