The last few years we have been watering the east garden by hand, which was manageable but tiresome. Earlier this year I experimented with some old soaker hoses I’ve had lying around but the results weren’t acceptable. Soaker hoses just don’t work very well when you’re trying to keep an area moist, such as [...read more]
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By john, on May 18th, 2010
By john, on May 5th, 2010
The weather has been unseasonably warm and I’ve already lost several of my lettuces due to lack of water. They were under row covers and when last I looked at them they were doing fine. And even though it has rained each of the past several days it appears the accumulation has been minimal. [...read more] By john, on May 24th, 2009
For the second time this season someone in our family (“I think it was me”, he said sheepishly) inadvertantly left the rain barrel valve open and drained the barrels dry. Over 200 gallons of precious rain water lost, again! It’s amazing how quickly we’ve come to rely on the rain water for our garden [...read more] |
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