This is a scarey movie

[softball]

Watering can be solved easily for about a hundred bucks. They sell an auto irrigation system at Lee Valley or just about any garden centre and it installs in about an hour. You can set the timer to as many times a day and for as many intervals as you need. Its fire and forget. You just need a knife and a screwdriver and if I can install it any bozo can.
We have six tomato plants and they produce more than we can handle and taste like sweet fruit, tons of herbs and even artichokes....its a hot summer (averaging in the nineties currently).

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Watering can be solved easily for about a hundred bucks. They sell an auto irrigation system at Lee Valley or just about any garden centre and it installs in about an hour. You can set the timer to as many times a day and for as many intervals as you need. Its fire and forget. You just need a knife and a screwdriver and if I can install it any bozo can.
We have six tomato plants and they produce more than we can handle and taste like sweet fruit, tons of herbs and even artichokes....its a hot summer (averaging in the nineties currently).

I've been thinking about doing rain harvesting, too, so I might see if I can rig a harvest system up to irrigation. My compost heaps are doing really well this year - I finally got my proportions right, and have actual SOIL living in one of them (when I turned it this morning I was happily gratified to see a giant earthworm colony in it), that I can supplement the clay we have here with.

*ponder*ponder*

[softball]

Originally Posted by LizAEBN

I've been thinking about doing rain harvesting, too, so I might see if I can rig a harvest system up to irrigation. My compost heaps are doing really well this year - I finally got my proportions right, and have actual SOIL living in one of them (when I turned it this morning I was happily gratified to see a giant earthworm colony in it), that I can supplement the clay we have here with.

*ponder*ponder*

next year I will get around to it. But I am in a brand new place and its small steps at the moment.