Sunday, July 21, 2013

A bit of research right before bedtime.

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Looking over my garden, I keep noting a few things that bother me.  The first is that some of my pepper plants have slight yellowing on a few leaves.  I suspect, somehow, they are being overwatered.  The problem is they sit right between other pepper plants that show no such signs.  Some plants are bigger, some of them are smaller, so that isn't it.  A quick check and of the possibilities open, it looks like overwatering really is the culprit.  Perhaps the soil varies, some being more clay, some being more sandy.  Or it's just an odd part of the chance from the variances in the sprinkler.  Drip irrigation will fix that. 

The other thing is that a few of my tomatoes are curling their leaves.  The best explanation I have seen for this is that it is overwatering, slightly, again, as well.  It seems that when a tomato plant goes from inside/planter to outside, with the sun and water of spring, it can grow it's leaves in excess of it's root system.  To try to compensate it lets the leaves go while focusing on roots.  It's not a bad thing, a little less watering would help it do that more quickly, or so it was suggested.  Yeah, I best get the system in place and working sooner than not.  I bought variable emitters so if a few plants need a little less while the rest are fine, I can do that.

Hmm, and I need to get fertilizer going.  I will read about that tonight before sleeping.  If all looks good, tomorrow, between tinkering with the plumbing again, I may apply some of the fertilizers.  From brazing torch to the sun, tomorrow will be a hot one.  Either that or I may begin setting up the trickle irrigation system.  Dunno... Something.

Good night.

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