...shelling peas, tying up tomatoes, mulching garden paths, laying black plastic around eggplants & peppers, planting out new lettuce starts, saving seeds (coriander, dill, spinach, lettuce), making comfrey healing salve, drying herbs, drinking red raspberry leaf & anise hyssop tea, making fresh basil and cilantro pestos for winter, bottling a new batch of crock pickles, first zucchini harvest, first new potato harvest, collecting eggs from the hens, cleaning the hen house, cooling our toes in the pond, fixing a rainbarrel, researching self-watering containers, making more soap, harvesting lavender, calendula & red clover blossoms, fresh mint sun tea, drying kale (kale "chips"), learning more about permaculture, watching bees pollinating, making current jam, picking raspberries, reading books in the back porch hammock...
Regarding self-watering containers. A few comments. Lee Valley sells a adapter for a large soda bottle that will keep a plant watered for a few days. The downside is that they are pretty ugly and I have not been using mine.
ReplyDeleteA solution for self watered garden beds is a setup of water barrel and drip tape from http://www.irrigro.com/ It was only after we set up our greenhouse we realized that it never rains inside! After a summer of lugging water from the barrels I installed drip tape in all my green house beds and, with good rains, virtually never need to water.
Cheers,
R.