Borouz Woodworking

Years ago I went flower shopping for the very first time, best friend in tow.  It was the nursery section of Builder’s Square and I had $20 burning a hole in my pocket.  Flower money, which was also a first.  My new home had a row of established lilacs bordering the grassland beyond and I wanted a pretty little flower bed underneath them.  Suddenly my “friend” shouts out, “Hey they named a flower after you!”  I was like, “Really?”  Her reply, “Impatient!”  Funny girl, but I bought them.  This started my love of these little flowers and every year after that I planted them under my lilacs.

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This post will be an instructional post for how I install drip tape irrigation in raised beds.  There are many ways you can do this, I find this method to be effective for me.

I use mainly Irritec Perma-Loc drip irrigation tubing, drip tape, and fittings.  I get them from Drip Depot.  They have very decent pricing, and the best selection for all of your irrigation needs that I have found.

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The new garden area we created this year is really doing well.  But it has added a lot of manual watering to our days.  In the new garden area, we have about twenty grow bags of pumpkins and winter squash, 25 bags of summer squash, 4 tomato plants, a 4 foot by 8 foot raised bed of corn, a 2 foot by 8 foot raised bed of sweet potatoes, and in the greenhouse there are 5 watermelon plants, 8 cantaloupes a zucchini, and a couple of tomatoes.

Corn, squash, and pumpkins by the greenhouse

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This has made life a lot easier, a little more complicated sometimes, and overall an investment worth making.

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I’ve never had great success growing melons.  Sam was the first person to grow an actual watermelon here.  From a seed that was in a piece of melon from the grocery store.  He was excited about it and asked if he could plant it.  Bill and I said sure and he plopped it in the ground right in front of the house.  As the summer wore on that little seed just kept growing into a beautiful plant and then formed an actual melon which we enjoyed that fall.  Not in a million years did I expect that.  I have attempted to grow them every year.  I have carefully tended to them, I’ve started them directly in the ground, I’ve started them in the house, I’ve put them in tilled gardens, I’ve put them in low raised beds, I’ve put them in low raised  beds and then stapled wire over them to keep critters out, I’ve put them in tall raised beds, I’ve tried them in multiple different locations and I’ve tried many different kinds of seeds.  From time to time I’ve gotten small melons with little taste but nothing has even been as good as that random seed that Sam planted.  So what have I learned?

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Bill built two of these doors for our original garden after the store bought ones fell apart.  They are heavy duty and are holding up really well. Continue reading →

Tomorrow will either be week 2 or week 3 I’ve lost track of time.  The greenhouse is starting to empty out.  All of the squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, most of the celery, most of the peppers, all but 2 tomatoes, and some of the peas have been planted and seem to be happy.  Oh and there are flowers glorious flowers to plant.

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The landscape fabric came on Friday!  Bill had already chopped, mowed, and cleaned up the area to prepare it for putting fabric down.  We found 3 tposts and a holiday weekend was in front of us.  Thankfully the rain had stopped.

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