Our garden mission on Monday was to install drip irrigation. This way, all we have to do to water our plants (not that watering has really been necessary up until this week!) is turn on the faucet and wait. No standing around holding a hose! Except it often seems like a project wouldn't be a project without at least one minor problem. Yesterday, it was a defective product. Actually, it was really us -- we should have looked closely at the supplies to make sure they weren't defective (we didn't). So, when Carl attached the little nozzle thing between the hose and this other hose-like-thing-that-surrounds-the-garden-so-plants-can-receive-water (don't go thinking I actually know the name of these items!) all it did was spray water in his face and all around the garden (rather than in the garden). By this time, it was getting cold and the sun was going down so we had to hurry and take it apart. We went back to Home Depot, where we exchanged the defective little nozzle thing. By now, though, it was 9:30 and too dark to go back and finish the job. So much for getting the drip irrigation in before the scorching summer temps arrive (tomorrow)!
The good news?! We have more snow peas and sugar snap peas!!! Lots of them (not that I've even used the ones we harvested last week ... I know, I know, I need to get right on that).
As for our sad little peppers and tomatoes, they are still in the garden. I meant to get some new starts last week at the Tuesday Marketplace, but we ran into some friends and got to chatting about how none of us could be any more disinterested in the movie Twilight Eclipse (or any of the other movies in that series) and I totally forgot. So, that is what I will be doing tonight!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment