Underhill T-400 Tracker Traveling Adjustable Speed Control Irrigation Machine 1-Inch Female Hose Connection Anchor Stake and Auto Shut-off

!±8± Underhill T-400 Tracker Traveling Adjustable Speed Control Irrigation Machine 1-Inch Female Hose Connection Anchor Stake and Auto Shut-off

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The Tracker T-400 allows you to economically irrigate large areas from 3/4 acre to 2 acres where an underground irrigation system would be too costly or impractical. Ideal for athletic fields, cemeteries or any other large area with a water supply. This unit can irrigate an entire football field in just two passes! Operation: Unit is powered by water to pull itself along a nylon cable. Tracker automatically shuts down when it reaches the cable's end. Simply position the unit where you want to begin irrigating and connect the Tracker to the water supply with a heavy-duty 1-inch I.D. hose. Unroll and anchor the nylon cable to the end point, set the speed control (which controls the application rate) and turn on the water. Requires at least 9 gpm at 50 p.s.i., which is typically available from a 1-inch or larger pipeline. Larger areas may require up to 15 gpm at 85 p.s.i. As a guideline, this unit can typically irrigate about 2/3 acre in eight hours. Features: The Tracker can pull up to 360 ft. of hose, allowing for a maximum irrigation length of 400 ft. Full- or part-circle sprinkler with a No. 6 (8.8-gpm) and a No. 7 (15-gpm) nozzle for varying watering requirements. Includes a galvanized anchor stake, 360 ft. of nylon cable and 1-inch brass quick couplers (for hose). 22-inchHx33-inchLx22-inchW. Weighs 80 lbs. Made in Germany.

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14 More Tips For Happy Tomato Plants

!±8± 14 More Tips For Happy Tomato Plants

Just dropping in for a few more fascinating facts and useful tomato tips.

Indeterminate tomato vines can grow up to 50 feet and live for years in the right climate. Northern Minnesota is not the right climate to support such growth. Tomato plants absorb water and nutrients through their leaves, so give them a good (gentle) spritz once a week or so, in the early morning (never in the late afternoon or evening) until they are thoroughly soaked. Caution: If it has rained, don't manually top water. Wet plants spread disease, so only top water if you really need to do so. To encourage bees to visit your tomato garden, inter-plant yellow snapdragons and yellow marigolds. The bees are attracted to the snaps or marigolds and stop off at the tomato blossoms, too, thereby pollinating the tomatoes on their rounds of the garden. This results in greater yields for you. If you're really worried about pollination, give your plants a gentle shake every day when flowers open up until they begin to set fruit. This helps with self-pollination, or at least my grandmother thought so. Prune your tomato plants early in the season by using a clean, sharp bypass shears. Please don't just pinch off the leaves with your fingernails unless you've just gotten a new French manicure. Cut off the bottom few leaves and remove suckers (small branches growing in the node of another branch). Don't over-prune, and stop pruning once your plants are setting fruit. Night temperatures are almost as important for setting blossoms (and increasing yields) as proper nitrogen fertilization. Keep your tomato babies warm at night by covering with clear plastic or mini-greenhouses (milk jugs with the tops cut off) until night temperatures warm up to a steady 50 degrees. If you live in a cold area with well water, keep in mind that your water may be 40 degrees or less coming out of the well. Do you tomato babies a favor in the spring and water them with tepid water instead of straight from the hose. Keep your tomatoes well watered until late August (or near the end of the growing season in your area). After that, water less because dryer conditions cause the fruit to ripen more quickly. Don't fertilize your plants after the first week of August because that encourages plant growth at the expense of fruit set. Overfertilization causes many problems, so just stop feeding your tomatoes too much. Some green tomatoes will ripen after you pick them and some won't. About two weeks after they are done growing, tomatoes start to lose their chlorophyl ripen into the tastier red color. If you store green ones in the hope they will ripen, choose lighter colored, larger green tomatoes. Use smaller, darker ones in recipes. Store green or immature red tomatoes in a cool place (50-60 degrees), not the refrigerator. Pop them into a paper bag and keep them dry. They don't need light to ripen. Root prune your tomato plants at the end of the season before you dig them up to hasten ripening. Take a spade and make a six inch deep circle all around your plants about a foot away from the base. This cuts off the top roots and and jump starts ripening before you would normally dig up the plants for the season. Always wash your gardening tools each time you are done using them. A thorough rinse with the hose is sufficient. At the end of the season, wash all tools, stakes, cages, trellises, etc. with bleach solution (10 percent bleach, 90 percent water), dry thoroughly, and store properly. Mulch is your friend. Want to go cheap on the mulch? Use newspaper (no glossy pages please). Just lay it down around your plants and in between rows, and replace when the paper has composted beyond usefulness. Straw is cheap for some people; clean bark or wood chips cost a little more; or you can spend a million dollars on the latest top of the line mulch just by asking your friendly greenhouse associate. The fourth Wednesday in August in Valencia, Spain is reserved for the annual La Tomatina festival, during which time more than 220,400 pounds of tomatoes are thrown by the crowds--at each other.

These tips will help you make the most of your tomato harvest!

14 More Tips For Happy Tomato Plants

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