What did you do in your garden today?

FarmerJamie

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Tonight's dinner
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Nomadicus

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Two more hours of pumping water and the entire fall garden will have been watered along with what is still producing in the spring garden. Picking enough okra for two meals or more a week on just a few plants. Keeping it watered has made a big difference.
 

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I am very thankful to have a deep well that while limited I still can water over all that I need to.

same here, we have a pretty deep well and it has never run out so we are glad when we have a long dry spell that we can keep the gardens going. however, it does have some calcium and iron in it so the garden plants don't do as well as they do with rain. last year we would not have had much of a harvest with the vegetable gardens as we had a very long hot and dry spell with very little rains.

this year we've only needed to water the gardens a few times, plus i use the hose a lot when i'm starting the seeds in the gardens as i don't want to wait for rains or to rely upon them for germination.
 
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