MotherLode Gardens 2016

[plantingplants]

The distance and elevation irrigation stuff only matters if you don't have a strong enough pump. If you have stuff in your water you might need a filter, like if you tank is not a closed container.

Meth is a nasty addiction and it leads to shitty things. I've had many good friends get addicted to opiates and end up turning into thieves. I can't speak for every case but most thieves deserve help and not more suffering. ...kinda like we say about how it's ridiculous that the justice system punishes addicts for being addicted.

 

[Good ol boy]

Thanks schrews and planting plants .

 

[maxmurder]

finishing transplants today, then staking cages and laying dripline. hope to have my drip system set up by sunset. might do a foliar spray too.

once everything is in the ground i can relax a little bit, as there is not much more work for at least another month or so. This past week has been pretty rough, but i had some great help and learned a lot to make next year smoother.

I've seen a couple gopher holes in my mounds already. I think they are below the hardware cloth though. It will suck if i lose plants to those fuckers. My dog killed one yesterday, so i gave him a steak dinner

Also my phone is broken so no pictures right now sorry guys. And not sure if i mentioned it but my Nikon camera that i had at the beginning of this thread, got stolen in santa cruz, fuckers broke into my car when it was parked in front of my house. so if anybody's wondering what happened to the high-quality pics well now you know.

Santa Cruz has really gone down hill, it was Mecca when I was a kid.
This morning I finished my cereal and the last thread I read was this one so I head out to uncover thinking to myself damn too bad screws doesn't just have moles like me, they move some Dirt around but never fuck up plants...
Then I notice I have a plant missing , a 45 degree angle cut like a rat but no plant in site just a little two inch hole next to the rock wool cube, that fuckin golpher somehow sucked a two foot tall wifi down a two inch hole and then filled the hole back up! So I bought a cinch trap from

http://store.gopherslimited.com/product0.html

 

[plantingplants]

Maxmurder, that's exactly what I read Wood Rats do. Angle cut and then they take the plant with them into the woods and stuff it into their food store. Take a jaunt into your surrounding woods and look for a stash of plant material. There's a good page about it I'll have to find for you.

 

[theJointedOne]

I used to go to Santa Cruz in high school in the late 90s with my girlfriend. Man, what a cool place. Sorry to hear it's gone downhill a bit. Eureka, up north just south of Arcata, has turned into the biggest and grossest drug and tweaker trap in Norcal, imho

 

[Shooter350]

this is the line.

 

[Shooter350]

Trying to upload a photo of the bucket. First timer.

 

[Mr Chocolate]

Watch out for those gophers! All my mounds are on hardware cloth but we get gopher holes that pop up right on the edge of them. I like those gas sticks. They look like little flares and you light then and jam them in the hole caddyshack style. Worked great last year.
Also you might want to think about a big inline filter right after your Honda pimp. I have pretty hard well water and am always cleaning little sediment out of mine that I wouldn't want to try and pass through my emitters.

 

[FoothillFarming]

Also you might want to think about a big inline filter right after your Honda pimp.

I wish I had a "honda pimp", lol. I assume he meant pump, but it was funny.

Gophers are terrible. I have Voles, which are just as bad. However, the worst is the ground squirrels. They can hop right on top a raised bed and burrow right in. They usually don't attack plant roots, however, if the roots are in the way of their nice nut nest, your plant will suffer. They will also sit in trees and throw stuff as you walk by. My cats have taken control of the garden, and these pests are less prevalent now.

When I still had my large chicken bin, the squirrels designed a crazy path for stealing eggs. They would have to bring them down about 3ft to ground level. Then they carved out a path in the dirt so they could roll the eggs down to a hole they had buried. That hole went under the tight mesh fencing, another 25 ft to the far side of a tree stump. That is where I first figured it out, because I thought the chickens were roosting there because of all the broken eggs. Watched them do it a bunch of times after I figured it out.


As for the filter, drip works has several options. I just go with the "home garden screen filters." As I don't see a point to the more commercial ones. My storage tank gets algae and I need a filter just for that. Not to mention sediment. http://www.dripworks.com/category/dripworks-filters

 

[plantingplants]

Yea they're $10-20 from home depot or irrigation stores. Worth it to make your irrigation last a little longer.

 

[Shcrews]

this is the line.

Trying to upload a photo of the bucket. First timer. [URL=https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=67619&pictureid=1606601&thumb=1]View Image[/url]

that is a line that was formed when we tried to pry open that bucket with various tools

there were no lines or markings on that lid at all. no instructions on how to open it either, just a picture that showed a baby drowning in the bucket.

it happens to me a lot, stuff that is obvious/easy for other people takes me hours and days to figure out. I dont feel bad this time though because there were two other adults here and they couldn't get it open either.

 

[theJointedOne]

Two filters works good too, just overkill but nothing but good from it.

Also buy an extra set of screens/disks ect for whatever filter you end up getting. Makes switching out and cleaning much easier, take out old dirty one, pop in clean, the take old and pop in a 5 gallon bucket with a mild h2o2 solution, boom, cleaned up and ready for the weekly changing. Honestly it's so easy why not change regularly so you know it's always flowing good.

Hope all is growing

 

[Good ol boy]

I hope you dont mind I throw this up schrews. Got this one today what do y'all think ? Also screws no glue on the t's correct just clamps ? Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[Shooter350]

Lol. You may have worse luck than me. Sorry Shrews.

 

[packerfan79]

Schrews, try taking a razor knife and cut a slice every 3 or 4 inches on the rim of the lid. you should be able to pry it off. if that doesn't work, the Sawzall may be required lol.

 

[HL45]

Feel on the inside lip off the bucket. I bet there are little indentations, cut down from them..

 

[OrganicDisciple]

Try putting a pin hole in the lid to relieve the suction on the bucket lid.

 

[Shcrews]

thanks guys . i got that bucket open already last weekend. now i know just cut the lid and pry it off. was hard as hell. fuck buckets.

When I still had my large chicken bin, the squirrels designed a crazy path for stealing eggs. They would have to bring them down about 3ft to ground level. Then they carved out a path in the dirt so they could roll the eggs down to a hole they had buried. That hole went under the tight mesh fencing, another 25 ft to the far side of a tree stump. That is where I first figured it out, because I thought the chickens were roosting there because of all the broken eggs. Watched them do it a bunch of times after I figured it out.

yah it gets pretty wildery up here. not many squirrels though. the woodpeckers are destroying my house though.

I hope you dont mind I throw this up schrews. Got this one today what do y'all think ? Also screws no glue on the t's correct just clamps ? Thanks for all the help guys.

idk about the filter but yah just two hose clamps for each barbed connection

 

[HL45]

Sounds like a good title for a cannabis porn.

"Fuck Buckets"

 

[Shcrews]

Sounds like a good title for a cannabis porn.

"Fuck Buckets"

i would make a cannabis porn involving big colas .