Water

Water is this week’s header challenge theme.  Not exactly in short supply around here this time of the year, falling or seeping out of the sky at a steady rate.   But there are just a few places it needs to be delivered to.  Like my flats in the Hippy Hot Hut. 

When I had the hanging pots and big stuff in the Hippy Hot Hut, I drug the hose in and used my water breaker doing everyone up quite nicely.  But even the water breaker is a bit much for seed flats.

So I went back to my low-tech approach from the laundry house days and made myself a water sprinkler out of a grape juice container.  Ta-da.  It works great and when I’m done, I just toss it into the water barrel and it miraculously refills itself for the next time.  

Except the next time I think I will water with my chamomile tea for preventing dampening off.  When I give the “waterer” a little pressure it sprays out quite nicely and covers a good bit of area quickly. 

The rest of my time this morning in the Hippy Hot Hut was spent trimming all the growing geraniums and setting the trimmings to root.  While I was at that tedious chore, I noticed a few white flies and aphids.  So I got out the spray bottle and soaked everything with a leaf.  Bioneem.  I also took some time to do the brug cuttings, they don’t seem to be getting on with life so I may bring them down to the kitchen for a little bit.  More even temperature.

There you have it, a gloomy wet day outside and a bright wet day inside, using water.  Gotta love water eh.

Speaking of water, I’ve been looking around for a solution to our annual dilemma, I may have solved it.  The problem: The water line from the barn out to the Market Garden is too far to keep up water pressure.  I have found that the garden doesn’t need a great deal of water but when it does I would prefer not to deliver it my the hand dribble method.  And my favorite way of fertilizing is foliar and for that I need pressure.  Water pressure.  So I found an in-line pump.  Supposedly it is made for boosting line pressure. 

Hopefully Dirt will approve and shake loose a little money.   Money shouldn’t have the nickname bread, it should have the nickname water, water is far harder to hold onto than bread.  Doncha think?

Go see what the others have for “Water” today:  Dave, Fishing_Guy,  Mac, and Gail’s Man.