This will need to be irrigated, so all the fittings to do it automatically need to be set up. My previous erratic hand watering regime in the garden was probably the main reason for a high attrition rate, and I can't afford these exotic berries going belly up on me.
The spray head that'll keep everything inside a large pot damp. Obtained from BUCO, but other, earlier. similar, components were obtained from Builders Warehouse in Port Elizabeth over the last few years. It appears there are different but compatible components available.
I was doing drip irrigation into a black plastic bag of compost growing broad beans at this location, but they need more room, so they'll be grown in tyres from now on. The drip head, with the "help" of one of my assistant gardeners, Ixia,, was snipped off, then the
end of the 6mm tube dipped into a cup of hot water for 30 seconds or so to make the next step easy.
New spray head fitted onto tube. Builders gravel in the bottom of the pot, which was recycled from an unsuccesful Cape Gooseberry attempt elsewhere in the garden.
The planting pot is filled with acid compost (obtained from Builders Warehouse earlier this year).
The plant is neatly dug in, then the micro-spray head lined up more or less in the middle. This sector, getting continuous direct sun from mid morning to late afternoon, has it's own controller and is given 3 minutes of water once a day just after 07h00. It's too much water in winter, but about right in summer. To the right are raspberries, also lovers of acid compost and irrigation.
Now to sit back and see what happens.
Update 2015/10/16:
I've seen a lot of these on sale over the last few weeks. The ones at Builders Warehouse in Port Elizabeth are about R50 cheaper than the local ones. It was a similar thing with Sharp Blue a year or so back, and those are doing very well in pots so I'm optimistic that Powder Blue will also suit local conditions.
Update 2015/11/11:
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