How's your garden doing?

That's funny. I get regularly get positive comment from parents for getting work out of their kids. -- apparently they only like to play video games at home too. I toughen 'em up ;)
 
The girl here helps me work quite a bit, but the boys....
they work well for other people, but here at home, not so much.
 
Mine gets all bent out of shape but realzies he has no other option. If he wants food, he helps.
 
well, I pretty much got a pump built.
Now I have to tie it into the lake drain, and then just add the delivery pipe.
:cool2:
 
Way to go, Cato!
You really do get right onto things, don't you?
Of course, when you've got plants wilting, you can't dawdle.
 
I had some old used pipe fittings laying around.
I experiment quite often.
I ran down to the local hardware and picked up a few missing fittings,
but I had the valves, and cut-offs.
I got it mostly together, and found that I still need 2 couplings, and a T.
I'll swings back down tomorrow and pick them up.

I'm going to test it a little with the yard hose, before I cut a hole in my lake drain.
I may try a side flow by just sticking a smaller pipe up in the bigger drain pipe,
and drop downhill about 20 feet, and see how much pressure that will do.
I like experimenting.

Right now, we just had a good rain, and maybe more expected this evening, but
I do want to be ready, after what we just went through.
 
well here's my basic pump.
I'm about to stick a pipe inside my drain pipe, and start hooking it up.

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I had to change out that modified footer valve with a swing check valve I had,
but I got it to hit off a couple of licks.
It kicked about 8 times one time.
I've gotta beef up my inlet piping now.
 
Now I'm getting water to my closest garden spot.
It's about 12-13 feet above lake level.
Total lift atm is about 25-30 feet up, and about 200 feet from the pimp.
1 gallon every 3 minutes. (or 1/3gal per min.)
 
hmmm, it looks like it'll cost me about $120 to get pipe to 3 of my spots,
and 2x that to get it to my farthest spot the other way.

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with the fertilizers, pesticides, and gas, I'm close to even with the store prices this year.
Of coarse you can't get this kind of corn, tomatoes, okra, and a few other things....
quite like this in the store.
Just the much less tasteful stuff.
I should be in real good shape in the out years though, if I can hold on to this piece of dirt.
 
If the cucumbers really kick in, and I can do some pickling,
that will make up a lot of slack.
Pickles in the store are getting crazy since that salmonella outbreak in Spain.

I've also notice that burgers at the King have gone up dramatically on the
styles that have lettuce, onions, and tomatoes, like the whopper.
 
woohoo, with the late planting, today I have new okra, and crowder peas breaking ground.
Since these last 2 rains, I have new pumpkins up and looking good, and
today I see the first good group of crowder pea pods.
My yellow corn is looking good, but my silver queen has taken 3 good storm
poundings, and is growing like a horseshoe, but it's growing.
cucumbers are coming in slowly, but ramping up, and I think I'll have a cabbage ready soon.

I think the tomatoes are still maybe a week away from ripening.

Got 500 feet of water line ordered, and it's scheduled for the 29th on arrival.
 
I just acquired some more eyed-potatoes, so I'm going to re-plant them
now since I've have more access to water. :beerbang:
 
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