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[akirashima]

well again from the bottom of my impacted colon i say weather... fuck you. My street front garden looks like it was hit with dragon breath. even with watering at night. I missed last night and the garden is over half dead. if anything recovers it will be a miracle. as much as i love having it there and using the unused space i keep thinking at some

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[capybyra]

Irrigation is the answer to several of your problems :} Internal for you and subsoil for the gardening. Soaker hoses on large scale and pinpricked burieds for smallish subsoil needs. Spraying water often only wastes most of it and at times actually can "water burn" plants if droplets become sunspot holes. I used to place some plants in pots with base hacked like the 2 liter bottle dog bowls. I'd fill bottles at 2 in morning etc.

A roll of old "oxygen tubing" or "aquarium air line" and some reducers from garden hose fittings> tubing diameter is the pinholed tube hack's basis.

Dollar/thrift store scavenges kit has given bountiful harvests in damn arid areas.

[akirashima]

Several problems.

no hose hookup out front at all.
everything is in bins and planters since it is all on a sidewalk in front of my house. i have no front yard in any way shape or form. just a wide swath of sidewalk.
I never spray water on plants in the day time ever. when i water i water at night. usually right after sun set. as it is when i water the planters i water the soil itself not over the plants. the rains can wash them. the only time i dump water on them really is when i am applying Neem Oil or some other thing to keep bugs away and keep mold at bay.

the bins actually have water resevours in them. at least most do. pin pricked three and two liter bottles buried in the soil which slowly releases the water. it was not enough for those 100 degree plus days even with extra watering at night. we are not normally this arid at all. but the heat wave also had a LOT of wind so evaporation was insane. just insane. I lost a half a foot of water in my pond alone.

[slipstreme]

Would it be possible to create a greenhouse type thing? I've seen a small one in front of the Elementery here, and I don't think it looks very hard to create. Perhaps figuring out a way to moderate the temps might be an issue, but even some form of duct-work leading in where you could hook up a fan might help, plus tarps to give it a form of portable shade? .

Homebuilt Greenhouse is definitely something I am going to figure out once we have our own home. I want me some tropical fruits.

[akirashima]

I have been trying to rig one up for ages. the problem is that a LOT of my food plants are on the sidewalk outside. so i cannot build over that. I am thinking of rigging up a shade system with some sheer fabric so some sun gets through but some will be blocked and with white sheer fabric it will reflect some of the heat. Also thinking of doing something maybe with rocks of some sort around all the empty spaces around the planters to also reflect heat/hold water maybe