Well the weather is making me reevaluate what the watering will be like.. Try watering at night, best time to do so. And with an automated sprinkler system I would likely water each channel about twelve minutes per day.. But we don't have that here.. It's the same move the hose system.. The sprinkler I use most of the time is what I call an atomized that sends the water out in extremely small water droplets.. It reminds me of the automatic sprinkler heads watering system.. And so that is why I use it.. The biggest problem with using it however is that the water can go anywhere.. Very much wind will put it everywhere but where I want it to go so windy days aren't the best to be watering.. But that can be said with any sprinkler as well as an automated system, but most people who have automated should water very early morning or very late night.. Between the hours of eleven at night and five in the morning for a dew reasons.. First off the water pressure is at it's best in those hours, most people are not watering or using water in those hours.. You get the best pressure meaning full coverage of the lawn.. Wind rarely blows at those hours as well.. Mowing is a different game plan.. The other day (Thursday, the main mowing day this year) I want to start as early as I can to beat the heat.. Mowing very early means dew on the lawn, so the earliest I think I can mow is nine in the morning.. This year I set the level at 5 to start with but moved it up to 6.. The highest it will go is 7.. Last year was 7 all summer, 6 in late September then 5 most of October and strangely enough last year saw the first time I ever mowed the week before Thanksgiving, and I was afraid I might still be mowing well into December..
With the heat, comes drought and the best way to fight dry lawn is water it.. or xeroscape which is something to think about.. My cousin(s) live in the desert southwest, with two living in the Mesa area of Arizona and the other living in Vegas.. One that I do know of I was able to find his house on Google Earth and his lawn is big rocks, not little pebbles but good sized rocks.. The other cousin had his dream house built.. Hard to say if he has a lawn or not, he used to work strictly at night.. And the one in Vegas, she did live on a ranchlike setting, not sure if she does anymore.. Having a no watering ban on tends to curb your watering.. For me, some five years ago I started using timers to water the lawn with.. Set the sprinkler and push the time button, in this case it starts at ten minutes and you adjust it from there.. I usually keep it at ten minutes and water the front one day then the back the next throwing in spot watering where needed.. I was doing great with the watering until the wind blew yesterday.. That stopped the watering because it was a heavy wind, but a nice day.. Sunday was hot and I was able to water the back where I felt it was most needed, having company kept me from watering the whole lawn but I got what I felt needed it..
This year I am back to batting a thousand on everything I planted.. Four Pumpkins, and seven tomatoes.. All are looking great.. The pumpkins are not the huge variety.. I figured they really struggled last year with the late season heat and the crappy wind.. The pumpkins are in the gas meter planter area, some of the tomatoes are in the pumpkin patch (last years pumpkin patch) and then there is one tomato in the fence planter with enough room for at least one more.. And the old reliable Earth box with two patio planter variety. they were so small that when they were first planted they were just barely above the ground level.. They are really growing now.. I've had the patio planer variety before.. Last year I had some odd exotic variety that were Krimm and like I told the people at the place I got them from. I couldn't tell when they were ready.. I had a yellow variety one year, same thing there, if they aren't red they aren't ready.. Raccoons liked those last year.. Or something did.. I had a caspien pink last year that a branch nailed from the wind storm.. So this year, I think I am happy with what I have..
I found a song that I am going to do a video to.. Very famous but in demo form.. should be interesting song to do video for...
Badge Henry
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