Postby Harriet » Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:11 pm
Hope you continued to make gains, Lynlee, and manage more claiming and reclaiming.
So far, no snakes here. I sprayed again tonight, and have started zeroing in on just the place I'm sure they've entered the henhouse before, at the hen-door, trying to keep from running out of the spray. I hope it's working. Egg production has slowed way down and I imagine the hens are reacting to summer weather.
The grow-bags seem to be fine. No particular problems. Picked a slug off one but have never seen any more. I'm still using the stakes into which you upturn a filled bottle of water and it drips there all night long. So far, so good, with 2-liter disposable bottles. Not perfect - a few have needed to be adjusted multiple times to get them dripping. But still, a drip method that makes my life easier and gives more consistent, slow water, and of course, it's cheap.
To say the Okinawa sweet potatoes have had a slow start would be an understatement. They are putting on new growth, at least. Of 4 slips that arrived, only 3 made it. I don't use the drip watering for them, but use a watering can instead, because I just can't see how water constantly dripping at one place would work well for a root vegetable. Maybe I'm overthinking that. Even if nothing comes of it, it's interesting to me to be growing something from so far away and so different.