Flood Irrigation, First Water of the Year

[taherrmann4]

Pecan when I transplanted one of my cactus I had gotten some stryofoam and packed it around the cactus then taped it and I was able to move and hold it with no problem.

 

[addy1]

Almost everything in my arizona yard had thorns. One tree, a mesquite, had thorns over 3 inches long, big suckers.

 

[taherrmann4]

When you use the styrofoam just be sure you get a thick enough piece to cover most of the thorns.....

 

[addy1]

We used to use old carpet, worked as long as the thorns where not too big

 

[CountryEscape]

My mom lives in AZ, and when she would trim her cactus or anything with thorns, she would use thick cardboard, since it's somewhat flexible and also would not allow the thorns to penetrate, as you would carefully pick up the cactus, not grab it hard enough to let the thorn penetrate.
Your gardens are gorgeous, Pecan! You had to have done some really good planning and leveling and so forth to get just the areas you wanted to flood with the water, and no more! That's really neat.

 

[j.w]

Wonder why they don't have some kind of special cactus gloves to use when handling those things?

 

[Waterbug]

I'm jonesing to redo someone's irrigated lot here. I think it would allow for a really different design. Most are just turf and trees, not updated from the 1950's.

Pecan, it looks like we're kind on the same page. You flood with some dry islands for desert plants while I don't irrigate but have wet islands for water loving plant. Kind of ying and yang. Great look either way imo. I like the surprise of seeing a mix of plants that don't normally go together.

Tmann, I'm with you on the stryofoam, best way I've found so far. Carpet and towels broke a lot of needles on the big heavy cactus I've moved. And I couldn't reuse the material because it would be covered in needles, as bad as the cactus. I first heard about it in this video.

 

[j.w]

Looks like the perfect way to do it waterbug. Don't have to worry about it here tho, too wet.