Water

I finished hooking up my irrigation system today. There are four lines snaking all around the greenhouse, including two going up to the baskets. Eventually these segments will go away as the baskets get moved out. For some reason it looks like the strawberry roots in the grow bags and baskets are bouncing back faster than those planted in the beds. It has been one week since they have been planted. If there are any big gaps in the bed, I'll moved some out of the grow bags. Shown here is a basket strawberry right after I tested the irrigation.

I know I shouldn't be watering strawberries by spraying water into the air, but they will be fine for the next few weeks. The timer is set for very early in the day and they have all day for the foliage to dry off.

I took a bunch of pictures, but they were just to provide a reference point for me to look back on in a couple weeks to see how things are progressing. I'm not going to post a bunch of them but I will include this one. All of the Supertunia baskets show some growth, but the Vista Jazzberry/Bubblegum basket is going to be a monster. None of the other five baskets are anywhere near this height. This is the Bubblegum side, with a few Jazzberry peeking around on the left. The foliage is already so thick it was hard to get the sprinkler head in there.

I have a few extra mint, rosemary and Plectranthus 'Velveteen Aromatic' ™, so I stuck one of each in the barrel outside. I have it set up with seven slots for buried 6-inch plastic pots. One thing which was immediately apparent was I need to have the dirt in the pots all the way to the top so they don't look like they are in a hole when I put them in the barrel. I will leave them there overnight (projected low 41) but will probably rescue them tomorrow since the forecast lows the next two nights are 33 and 25. Our "Last Frost" date is still over a month away so I might be swapping them in and out of there frequently. Eventually the Monarda (Bee Balm) will take the center spot, surrounded by hard herbs, alyssum and nasturtiums.