RE: reclaimed water

F* C*

there has been a lot of talk here about gardeners and farmers switching to
all cool-season crops and abandoning the thirsty summer crops.  it's been
three difficult drought summers for us, and we have a mild enough winter
that it makes sense to grow crops while the soil has more available moisture
and plant stress is lower.

fgc
Community Garden Coordinator
Atlanta Community Food Bank
970 Jefferson Street, NW
Atlanta, GA  30318

-----Original Message-----
From: Honigman, Adam [A*@bowne.com]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:48 AM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: RE: [cg] reclaimed water

Comrades,

This weekend we had some Israeli visitors who were bemused by our blithe,
turn -on- the- garden- hose NYC watering practices ( we have water piped
into out garden from the NYC system courtesy of the NY Parks Dept.) 

Our visitors, a back-up  El Al  crew in for  UN festivities and former Negev
desert farmers, said that what we had spritzed in that afternoon would have
been sufficient to handle a decent crop of orange trees for a week using
their  drop-by-drop root irrigation systems. 

This may have been a bit of  wry Israeli kibbutz  humor  but it gave us all
pause for thought. Water is gold.

Happy gardening,
Adam

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