When you have a garden as large as mine, ensuring it is all properly irrigated can be a little overwhelming. To be fair, over the years I did my best with what I could to set up systems and deliver water to my garden. I came up with many systems that were dodgy, bodgy and completely jerry-rigged, and my garden was watered. It probably wasn’t … Continue reading Irrigating the Garden
We are in the midst of a heat wave. It is just too hot to sleep properly, too hot to sit and do nothing and more importantly, too hot to garden. The heat is making me a little grumpy at Hubby the Un-Gardener, but he just doesn’t understand the depth of my frustration. I really want to garden and going out there would ordinarily be … Continue reading A Bit Corny
I think I can start counting the time to my trip to the Garden Bloggers Conference now in hours. 4am Monday morning isn’t that far away. I am getting really excited, but also nervous. I have completed all my official work – article deadlines, pitches, visits, paying bills, meetings and organising kids. Many of these task were completed in advance, which for me is quite … Continue reading Hubby the Un-Gardener’s Honey Do List.
I have been doing a bit of tweaking to my irrigation system. It needs to be working perfectly so Hubby the Un-Gardener won’t kill my plants while I am away in America. I still fear for the wellbeing my plants, but I have to trust him. There will be lists. Extensive lists, and possible regular checks ups from across the seas. The irrigation trolley was … Continue reading Modify
My irrigation system is fully functioning! Wahoo! As we already know I am a doer. I learn and figure things out by doing. So when confronted with huge manuals to go with the water computer and the water distributor, it kind of freaked me out a little. Since we got a more modern telly that can do all sorts of things except make a cuppa … Continue reading It is raining, but I don’t care!
This weekend was a long weekend and today was the holiday day to celebrate Auckland’s 175th birthday. We seized the opportunity to go bush for a couple of nights. I’m not such a great camper and much prefer the creature comforts, but the bush is beautiful and the river was clear, deep and warm. It was a great adventure, but sleeping under thin fabric on … Continue reading To get water: Hammer, Hammer, Saw, Saw
In the depths of winter last year I found love, and fell quite deeply into a covetous desire of want and longing. And the object of my new found affection was a seemingly miraculous device that would improve my gardening experience no end. And this wonderful item that would change my life: a Gardena Automatic Water Distributor. Oh what a wonderful thing. You can read … Continue reading Finally I can play with my new toys
Well not all of them – not that I have that many worries, but I have been deeply concerned about the upcoming summer and the need to keep my garden hydrated. The first spot of good news is my laptop has been fixed – under warrantee and I have a brand new motherboard, whatever that does. But it must be pretty important or they’d have … Continue reading All my worries are over!
Encouraged by comments to re-look at the irrigation but with a smaller hose to increase the pressure, I set about investigating the irrigation bits and bobs that are most commonly available as individual pieces at most hardware stores here. I went on to the company website to look at my options and found a really cool application where I could load in my garden dimensions. … Continue reading Well that was a waste of time.
I had the best idea. I want to make it easy for my lovely friend who will be looking after the place over Christmas. She isn’t a gardener, but is looking forward to spending some relaxing time in the country. The thing is, it will be the height of summer and so the garden will need a lot of water. To make sure her holiday … Continue reading Epic fail.
