Rocky Mountain Gardening: Surviving the heat, 1 by kmom246

kmom246 wrote:
We're slowly putting in automated watering systems. Our first year here I hand watered 20 + baby trees with a 5 gallon bucket hauled from a hose bib 100 feet away. At the beginning of the season, I could only carry 2 gallons of water in them. Now I can carry TWO buckets nearly full - but now we've put water out to most areas. I still hand water for the theraputic benefits. DH says my gardening is getting expensive, but I remind him it is still cheaper than paying for a psychologyst :-)

I posted this pic in the wildlife forum, but here is one of my gardening buddies... he/she has moved into "Veggie Bed #1". Laps water off of the soaker hose.