Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

I went out and picked most of the navel oranges a while ago. The navel oranges start falling off on their own when it warms up. I tend not to eat them if they are on the ground first, but I suppose they might be ok. Those end up in the compost. I will set things up for the wattering this afternoon. It takes about an hour to flood them; it's several hundred gallons of watter. I do that two times in a row, usually adding gray water in, and that waters them for a month at this time of the year. In the summer, it is every two weeks, and they get doses of gray water on and off. I swich between the septic and the gardens on the gray water during the two winter-ish months if I don't have a large number of plants like tomatos growing. As I've said before, I've removed most of my raised beds, and am starting all over. There's not much out there right now. It all works very well, but gray water systems require someone to decide where the water would be best used, and also to make sure everything is up and running: unclogged. It can be a bit of work.


* That's done. I flooded them. I also chopped down a good sized forest of weeds that had been growing between the block wall and the row of citrus. That'll help in the new compost heep. I think I'm done for the day out there. Tomorrow, I'll flood them one more time and there good to go for this month.

* There, I added in descriptions on the end of the Cats post.