Still tossing some ideas for some row coverage or critter guard, but a little more difficult with the supports, would need to be taller. Could leave top open, but than can’t use for frost.
Now you NEED the weather station attached to home assistant to automatically control the watering! (Maybe some soil moisture sensors too)
A couple of frost protection options: https://www.ruralsprout.com/protect-plants-from-frost/
The vineyards in Ontario and Québec use massive fans to keep the air moving and fight frost. But I think if you are building critter fencing anyways, a blanket is probably the easy way to go.
Yep that’s part of the plan, will need a new timer/splitter though. For now I just manually turn it on or just every second day. Will need to see if there’s any drought restrictions too, because we were limited to two days and only certain hours to water last year. So kinda did it irregardless of the forecast to still be able to do it within required guidelines.
Is it a blanket watering restrictions on your region, or just lawn watering? Some areas only limit watering lawns, crops are fine.
Maybe consider a rain barrel too? Hook it into the system to water during restrictions.
Im moving this summer and only growing a single basil plant, so I’m living vicariously through you to plan my garden in the fall!
So the city actually has great Resources and I love it. To answer the question, yes and no… using sprinkler is a blanket no, doing it by hand is fine.
I actually just installed 2 rain barrels! Will need a pump to use with the soaker, but the City recommends (again great for resources I find) and I’ve seen comments here and elsewhere to not use on food. So I’ll hand water flowers with them.
Haha that’s unfortunate, but moving to place with a decent yard/garden atleast!? I’m trying to post frequently without spamming or being annoying.
Those are some great resources.
I’m moving to Kingston, ON. The place has a big yard, and my goal is to have no yard.
It’s part of Frontenac Arch biosphere, so I get access to four botanical regions for native species to pick!
I love my cattle panel arches.
Hrmm not a bad idea, I could lay tarps across it early season, late season frost would be tough as it would be touching leafs and fruits then. Would be fine for any shade or critter cloths I would think, but it would also make harvesting anything inside of it difficult. Great idea for some other potential trellis for cucumbers though!
I also grow my tomatoes, squash, luffa, and melons up the trellis. 10ft panels make it pretty easy. Maybe you could double the trellis and tuck or trim everything in to the inside one before frost, and the outside one could be used for the cover?