Your Peach Tree is on the Roof…

It doesn’t look good for the peach tree.  Our off season will be spent watching the cover crop grow and getting in front of the nutrition and maintenance schedules for our trees.  That and adding a new big water tank.  I’ve increased the water from 2 hours 11 minutes twice a week to 4 hours twice a week for the next few weeks.

The test field is now off line.  We had a cap pop off and bleed out all the water in the 200 gallon tank.  That happened because a fix I had to make failed in the heat and the cap came off.  In short, we bought irrigation line components from two different manufacturers.  Both were 5/8”, but one was internal diameter and the other was external.  I capped the end by placing a cap on the smaller diameter line, inserted it into the end of the larger diameter pipe and duct taped it up.  It worked all through April, May, June, and July.  After that, even duct tape will fail in the sun.  We harvested the last of the veggies and are looking forward to turning and cover cropping on a larger scale.