We’ve had a couple of days of fairly hot weather with no rain here and it’s starting to show in the garden. Some of the lettuce is starting to loose its vibrancy and droop a bit (I’ll try and post pictures later tonight). I suppose I’ll give the beds a good drenching tonight and that should bring them back.
This just makes me more and more convinced that setting up a drip irrigation system is where it’s at in terms of ease of use and effectiveness. A friend of ours has a bunch left over from a garden we did last year at his place so I think I’ll give him a call and see if we can pillage it. I know for sure he has the main feeder line as well as the nipples and drip spikes to run off the main and into each individual plant. All that leaves is a water control timer for the faucet at the back of my place (or a rain barrel for that matter).