Texas Gardening: Lessons learned while gardening in a drought..., 1 by rouxcrew

rouxcrew wrote:
Htop and Podster, I bought mine over a span from Ebay. They can get fairly expensive, the tall ones I've seen for $25 - $30. I was able to grab six used ones on Ebay for $12 apiece. Then I went looking for the Jr. size which is flat and shaped like a donut, $20 or so. Found a guy on Ebay selling them for $8 a piece but wanted $7 each for shipping. We went back and forth a couple times and I finally told him I would buy 10 but he would have to ship each and every one in a separate box for that shipping rate. He sputtered but came down to $4 each. So $11 each was great for me. Wish I had more for my citrus, I am soaker hose watering them. I fill the tall ones up once a week and the smaller ones about every 5 days. I love my antiques at my front gate and I have no water up there. Since I started up about 3 weeks ago, my roses are actually putting on growth, my plums are keeping their leaves, and my pears no longer look like long sticks in the ground. There is little waste, and it takes me about 6 or 7 minutes maybe to fill one of the big ones.
Where I run the soaker hose I have tall grass competing for the water, the gators block out the grass and I haven't seen any growth around them.

My Westerland this morning,

Joy