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- Subject: Re: Fall
- From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:04:56 +0000 (UTC)
Read an interesting feature on maintaining plants in a semi-arid area. Set up a cistern, using scarce water that flows from your gutters. You may have to connect gutters. Make drains from the cistern to gardens with turn off/on valve. Set up drains from your showers and rinse water to gardens. Direct water from your drive to gardens. B ETN Zone 7 Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911. ----- Original Message ----- From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com To: gardenchat@hort.net Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 6:37:57 PM Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fall Since we are on a well, I can only haul water in buckets - don't dare use a hose for fear of burning out the well pump. Since my back isn't what it once was, I can only haul so many buckets, so I mainly water the container-garden in my breezeway and on the front stoop. Everything else just parches. You might think that here in Westchester County, just 40 miles north of NY City, we would have city water, but no, not up our private road. We pay water taxes each year, but there is no city water for the 12 houses on this road. Auralie In a message dated 9/16/2010 6:25:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes: Do most of you water your gardens in summer? Here in CA of course almost everyone has sprinklers permanently installed. Is that the case back East or do you drag out the hose when it gets dry? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT