Week 1 - Day 3: Drippers cleaning & Lady Fingers planting

Wednesday 27th June 2012

The today pictures can be mysterious : one dripper (left) and one lady fingers (right)

Let's have a deeper look in it ...

- The word DRIPPER come from DROP. The aim of the drippers is to use water sparingly and intelligently, instead of giving a big quantity of water and risk a waste.

- The Lady finger is a vegetable.

Let's have a deeper look on it ...

• How work the drippers ?

Drippers give water drop by drop ... They are disposed on the beds, close to the plants. By this way, the soil receives water and keeps being wet. Let's have a look on this sample picture showing drippers clos to beans and basil plants.

Drippers close to basil plants (left), and close to beans plants (right)

Look at these pictures, then understand how it works :

One dripper and its drop

As you can see, my camera is not a Pentax one ...

Drippers are disposed along pipes (left), pipes are placed on beds (right)

• How do we plant the lady fingers ?

The question should be "How do we plant any kind of plant ?" because tasks are always the same. First, a bed has to prepared. It means a good weeding, composting, mulching, drippers cleaning. Then the bed is ready to plant something on it. The steps previously quoted will be developped in a page dedicated to the bed preparation. For now, let's have a look on the planting, which has to be done as soon as the bed is prepared.

Take growth of lady fingers (prepared a couple of days ago)

 

Dig a hole by hands or with a digger

Place the growth in the soil and squeeze the soil around it

Water ...

Let's end with a nice face

Carla says :

"The next page is talking about a basil bed making, and will also end with a nice face"