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KingSparta

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My Garden Project
« on: February 15, 2004, 10:55:09 am »

Pictures of My Garden Project (My Back Hurts)

The PVC Pipe Will Deliver Water and Support to Tomato Plants Using An Automated Watering System.

It is not Done Yet, around the 4 PVC pipes coming out of the ground will be a 4x4 slab. On top of that slab will be a raised bed garden.




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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2004, 08:06:43 pm »

You're going to have tomatoes to burn next summer.  You might need to open up a fruit stand.

My garden is all white.



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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2004, 10:29:13 am »

What do you mean by a 4X4 slab? A cement slab with soil on top, or are you talking about using 4X4 lumber to contain the raised beds? Will there be one tomato plant per watering assembly? Will you water on a fixed schedule or using feedback from a soil moisture sensor?

Looks like an interesting project. I think I need to construct a geodesic solar heated dome over our garden and get to work.
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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2004, 11:14:50 am »

Jim,

I'm quite impressed by the amount of snow your bird house was able to keep on its roof (it's taller than the birdhouse :D)
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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2004, 12:04:54 pm »

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What do you mean by a 4X4 slab?

A 4 Foot by 4 Foot Slab, there will be 4 of them. The PVC pipe will come thru the slab.

On top of the slab I will place aprox a 3 foot by 3 foot x 12 inch square wood frame. Then fill that frame with sterilized top soil.

Weed block will be placed on top and fixed to the wood to keep weeds out (from blowing seeds)

Maybe later or next year I will have the slab bricked up maybe a foot.

I will be using a rain bird water gage sensor that I will take a part and imbed in the soil where it can sense the moisture and turn on the system when needed.

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Will there be one tomato plant per watering assembly?

No 4, this way each Plant will have there own PVC pipe to tie them on

If I can figure out a way to get a web cam out there i will so everyone can watch them grow. I already created a VB program to take pictures and save them to my web site. I don't think you can do a 100 foot USB cable.

I did hook up a spy camera today (color with sound, 1 lux) works good but i can't hook it directly to the computer. it has a receiver that hooks to a rca video\audio in so thats hooked to my TV so i can watch them grow in my room i guess. maybe i should have bought a night vision camera but i wanted to see if this worked.

maybe next year I will get night vision, they make them water proof too.

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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2004, 12:10:23 pm »

You know...the store sells tomatos ;)
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2004, 12:17:33 pm »

You know...the store sells tomatos ;)

If you have never had home grown you don't know what your missing. Hot house tomatos tast like cardboard.

I came from New Jersey The Tomatos groown in new jersey have the right soil content thats why they taste good there. you must have the right balance in the soil
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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2004, 09:08:59 am »

KingSparta...

The TomatoKing.

KingTomato ::)

SpartaTomato ?

Anyway enjoy them.  You have to after all the hard work.

Buy the way, they sell FRESH, vine ripened, hand picked tomatoes here in Texas most of the year round ;D  Pretty darn good 8)

ENJOY ;D
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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2004, 05:13:56 pm »

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Buy the way, they sell FRESH, vine ripened, hand picked tomatoes here in Texas most of the year round

yea they are not as good however, we get them here, i buy them from time to time.

at any rate the slab forms are going to be put it tomorrow and cement layed on friday (maybe).
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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2004, 06:14:58 pm »

...and the habenero pepper plants are going where?

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Re:My Garden Project
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2004, 06:22:18 pm »

I have 4 other Raised bed Gardens 2-each 3ft by 16 feet and 2-each 3ft by 10 feet i can put them there if i don't remove all of them. one of the (3ft by 16)them has my strawberries in them.

I need to start them, I saved seeds from last year
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