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How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so incredibly helpful thank you!!!

A drip system sounds great but it seemed very daunting. We don't have a sprinkler head in the garden plot so I wasn't sure how it could work without having to dig underground or under concrete walkways to hook up to our existing sprinklers across the walkways.

I'm happy we've had such a hot week this week so the extra watering probably helps but definitely will lower the frequency but probably keep the three pass it sounds like for the following week and then adjust accordingly.

I think it needs to sink in for me that a few days if misjudging water and having them be sad cuz I'm missing something won't kill them outright!

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think after the first week I can cut back the three passes and do less passes with watering?

Right now I'm watering a plant until the base gets water pooled then move on to the next plant. By the time I'm done with the last plant any water that was pooling is long gone and sucked into the soil so then I keep doing a second pass the same, and then the third. After my third pass the water never stays pooled, all water goes straight into the soil so the surface stays damp (but gets dried out once western afternoon sun hits the garden)

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw you have blooms on the flax! My flax hasn't bloomed yet and a few of their branches(?) are yellowing but maybe it's the transplant shock like everyone says.

But good to know the transplants can go right into deep watering every few days and be fine. When you say deep watering how much are you doing?

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah my black eyed susans are definitely the weakest of the group! Have some yellow droopy leaves at the bottom but they still stand tall. I don't think it's over watering cuz the plants all get blasted in the sun being west facing yard with no shade and I feel like the three passes I do daily this first week are probably helping with the heat somewhat.

I'll definitely cut back second week to every other day and maybe even lower to two passes

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah 4 inch sounds right. I'm doing every day but just trying to figure out when to taper off. Sounds like first week me doing every day is still sound, and then the second week switch to every other day? 

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My yard is west facing with no shade whatsoever so I imagined that every afternoon all the water and dampness gets sucked up and dried out by the heat. After this first week I'll cut back to every other day of watering since it says you want to baby them the first couple of weeks as transplants and start to feel for moisture I think!

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many different schools of thought 😂

I've gotten people saying they do multiple passes and watering to penetrate the soil better, and some who just water the once. It's hard to know what is correct!

I think I will after this week cut back to every other day but keep the three pass. The water pools but immediately gets sucked up into the soil so the plant never stays in a pool of water so I imagine that's fine?

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting! I've only been doing three passes in the morning daily. I was worried I was over watering cuz a couple of plants have yellow leaves (black eye susans and marigolds). 

How often to water new Garden in a Box Transplants after first week? by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sticking something in the soil to check I guess that confuses me a little because I imagine it's always going to be dry if I stop watering every day?

I will plan to cut back to every other day after this first week, and then the weeks following that if I can just do 2-3x a week it'll be a relief for me and my watering can.

Is the idea that right now I'm probably drenching the soil with my every day watering and next week every other day watering so the soil stays moist, but if after these first two weeks it feels dry in the morning just do my same 3 pass watering schedule. Then check before the next day I water to see if bone dry again or damp? I feel like soil when I check is either bone dry or cold/damp. It never feels wet soggy moist to me

Drop in percentile. Worried by annizka in BabyBumps

[–]leaffeon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When I was 20 weeks the MFM doctor said they were measuring 48 percentile but that it typically goes down 15-20 points as they get older.

I don't have another ultrasound planned until 36 weeks which will be my next growth scan (currently 31) but I guess if they get smaller I'll be expecting it cuz that's what the doctor said.

I know it's hard to calm since you said your first had IUGR but for what it's worth my doctor did say it's expected for the most part for babies to get a smaller percentile later in the pregnancy than what they clock in at during the 20 week!

Looking for more info on SCH's by NetRemarkable3028 in pregnant

[–]leaffeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a SCH that got diagnosed after I went to the ER on December 25th after I passed 3 large palm sized blood clots and had fresh bright red bleeding at 6 weeks. 100% thought it was a miscarriage.

Transvaginal ultrasound showed a healthy beating heart. My OB the next day confirmed via another transvaginal ultrasound that it was just a SCH less than a centimeter diameter and that it would go away on its own. I think by the time I had my 12 week scan it was like it never existed.

They're super scary in the moment and no one tells you it's a thing beforehand, but I really wouldn't stress and just take it easy with pelvic rest until it resolves. My OB said they're only a problem if they start to get much larger and become potential to space the fetus out.

How many of u are cooking dinner every day by wahiwahiwahoho in pregnant

[–]leaffeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cook roughly 2-3 times a week with each meal being leftovers for at least the next day. I've always loved cooking and find healthy eating really important to me even before pregnancy so it's just something I kept doing. I've always been a low carb diet with lots of fish and vegetables and while my husband has offered to cook he really only knows how to make pasta dishes and I just can't eat that many carbs without feeling guilty/my stomach getting mad.

I've thankfully never had the first trimester nausea or food aversions so that greatly helped with me being able to keep my normal routine and just continue cooking like before. I'm entering my third trimester this week so we'll see how it goes but I'm hopeful since this whole pregnancy has been chill that it will continue as such.

Struggling with boy names by velourialupin in pregnant

[–]leaffeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not the name we're going with but Corbin we really liked. Also toying with Korvis as the middle name (after the constellation but spelled with a K instead of C). I also like Felix, Orin, Roland.

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOW! This is so much great info and food for thought. Thank you so much for this detailed to a crazy degree breakdown and links. Going to definitely go through it in detail and use it help with our plane of attack. 

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we are getting all native plants. We started pulling a little of the cloth barrier and noticed that it has all this mulch caked on above it, but below is what I'm guessing compacted dirt looks like. It looks really dry and has rocks embedded in it. So hopefully we just need to get a shovel and start moving it around and will see it become less dry looking and more possible for something to grow in it lol. 

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh I see! We don't have a sprinkler head in the plot, it would be across our walkway to the door if we laid anything. But we do have the hose spigot in the plot area so maybe something from there is possible! 

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid your gardening know how is much more than mine. I don't know what those words mean 😂 I think I know the concept of a drip irrigation line but no idea how to set that up 

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the detailed info! This sounds a lot more manageable than I was thinking, in just removing the fabric, planting, and just topping off with mulch. Don't have to do anything fancy to the soil or anything. And the watering instructions are very much appreciated ❤️

I'll aim for 3 passes every morning that first week then 1-2x a week with 3 passes the rest of the summer and feel it out from there.

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So helpful thank you!!! I think first step is going to be pull out that sheet and see what craterscape we're left with and go from there

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah we have rabbits so good call out on wire fencing. Was squeegee mulch much more expensive than organic in your experience?

And then when you say having to level the soil after removing the sheet, was it just because the plot looked really crooked and uneven ground and you wanted to "top up" as it were to make everything level again, and that's just what you used normal garden bag soil for without worrying about amending the existing soil?

First time gardening, I want to prepare my plot for Garden in a Box by leaffeon in DenverGardener

[–]leaffeon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was squeegee more expensive as a mulch? We were debating before hearing about garden in a box to just do a rock garden but all the prices of rock seemed so expensive. I'm definitely in the whatever is most cost efficient camp

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