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digitS'
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Ran the sprinklers in the dahlia garden.
I had a "snickering at the neighbors" moment the other day. It has now passed to irritation. The lot two doors down and a tiny bit uphill has automatic sprinklers running every morning. Problem is that one swings way out into the street. Yeah, waters asphalt. Could be worse! These same sprinklers ran right through the entire month of October in a recent year -- filling the yard (& sidewalk) with ice, repeatedly!
I'm just as methodical ... yeah, I'm on a water schedule and just fitting myself back on it for 2017. I wonder how many local gardeners decided that the 1/10" of rain on 9 June was sufficient to change their irrigation schedule?
I've got the sprinklers in place but, I did have to drag a hose 20 yards. Happy to do it! Sometimes I modify the duration of the sprinklers, seldom do I miss a day. I just don't easily have a day or rain drop to spare. Gettin it dun!
If an inch or more water is required for a garden each week and I have two days available to get it on, it's important to be there with that hose. Yeah, we had some rain sprinkles but there wasn't a single 1/2" storm in May and the rain isn't likely to be any greater from here on until the neighbor's sprinklers cover the sidewalk and street with ice in October ...
Steve
I had a "snickering at the neighbors" moment the other day. It has now passed to irritation. The lot two doors down and a tiny bit uphill has automatic sprinklers running every morning. Problem is that one swings way out into the street. Yeah, waters asphalt. Could be worse! These same sprinklers ran right through the entire month of October in a recent year -- filling the yard (& sidewalk) with ice, repeatedly!
I'm just as methodical ... yeah, I'm on a water schedule and just fitting myself back on it for 2017. I wonder how many local gardeners decided that the 1/10" of rain on 9 June was sufficient to change their irrigation schedule?
I've got the sprinklers in place but, I did have to drag a hose 20 yards. Happy to do it! Sometimes I modify the duration of the sprinklers, seldom do I miss a day. I just don't easily have a day or rain drop to spare. Gettin it dun!
If an inch or more water is required for a garden each week and I have two days available to get it on, it's important to be there with that hose. Yeah, we had some rain sprinkles but there wasn't a single 1/2" storm in May and the rain isn't likely to be any greater from here on until the neighbor's sprinklers cover the sidewalk and street with ice in October ...
Steve