[Sca-cooks] The garden that Ox built

[Mercedes/Stephanie]

Geez - Ainar loves me too but it hasn't manifested itself in a garden!!!  Of
course, I have a suspicion that if Ox were not the type of person that he is
you would still be well loved but less well supplied......

Mercedes
(the jealous)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina L Biles" <bilescl at okstate.edu>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] The garden that Ox built


> >So, what are all the big, white pipes that are sticking
> >up in the garden for?
> >
> >Stefan li Rous
>
> Olwen replied:
> >>>To stick the hose in.  A very worthwhile system of underground
> watering.
> The PVC is drilled with lots of small holes and surrounded by blackcloth
> and
> layed under the plot with the vent sticking up..then all you have to do is
> stick in the hose at low pressure for a while and *whala!* you have good
> even root moisture.  Such a conservative measure.  No run-off!  Good
> choice!
>
>
> I say:
>
> Nope.  Good guess though.  Ox loves me a lot.  I have a full system of
> buried and top lying soaker hoses connected to a programmable electronic
> timing system with a box in the bedroom that I can set to the exact amount
> of time and what day of the week or month I want each of my eight lines to
> run.  It also has a rain gauge which will turn off the timer when we've
> gotten a certain amount of rain, and I have feeders set up on each line so
> that I can customize feeding schedules.   Did I mention that Ox loves me?
> The garden was my graduation present last year.
>
> -Magdalena the much loved
>
>
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