Every garden needs one of these handyI realized with some amusement that the garden expansion I undertook last fall meant it is no longer a one-beer task to water all the beds.
Now, lest you get the wrong idea, I am not much of a beer drinker (and even then I am more of a beer sipper, so drawing out the process) nor am I a profligate water-user. But the seedlings are babies, after all; they're babies whose roots are not quite down 2" yet to that nice moist subsoil. (Interesting note: my daughter, upon hearing me call the seedlings "my babies" said "But I'm your baby," which led to lots of sidestepping on my part, saying the seedlings are her babies too.) I am also a compulsive mulcher, so watering (and weeding) theoretically is not needed nearly as much. There's no mulching the wee ones, though.
I watched the sky all last afternoon and early evening, waiting for any indication of rain. By 8 it appeared there would be no rain and I had to water. That was the first time this year that I've had to water the garden entirely and not just hit it here or there. I hope this isn't a dry year cause I really don't enjoy that task.
ReplyDeleteM, if you do it with a beer in one hand, listening to the world, the task is much less arduous. (Or at least that's the way it feels to me.)
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ReplyDeleteSummer. Beer. Seedlings.
Very, Very Nice.
So do you water less or drink more beer? {grin}
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