Fall Farm Project...Irrigation!

Not an exciting thing, you would think; trenches all over the place, from the front gate - to the bees - down the driveway - to the new greenhouse site - to the garden. But I must tell you, this is a long-awaited happy thing. It means Will can lay drip irrigation tape down every row in the garden next year. And we can just turn a valve and water whatever needs it...no more dragging hoses from the house, first of all! No more watering seedlings one by one. And no more going out to move the sprinkler every hour, sometimes through the night. Although we invested in new tripod sprinkler this year, the old one was actually better, but you had to put two bricks on the bottom to hold it in place, and when you needed to move it, you had to slog through what was now mud, and pick up the bricks and move them, then pull the sprinkle down...then get the bricks - you get the picture. And a terrible job it was when you had to go out every hour in the scorching heat. It's a big project, but here are some pictures of where we are at the moment. Of course the trencher we had borrowed just would not start, and the one
Will rented conked out 2/3s of the way through the job AND it's going to pour down rain this weekend. But we'll get on the other side of this, like we do with everything else. And next season will be easier. Well, the watering part anyway!

It must be fall..

Satsumas, sweet potatoes and pecans.

Good Riddance Isaac

Lots of scary wind lots of rain...got lucky this time...friends without power but only for a few days. It just wasn't our turn. But a lot of people got hit by unexpected flooding and many lost everything. Another year, another hurricane - no two are alike. Yard-trash everywhere but at least the beehives didn't tip over.