Pumping Rain Water

here is rain water being pumped from a barrel to a squash plant:

April, Twenty-Ten

garlic:

two things we need...

...to get the 2010 growing season going:

#1) a replacement pump head for the broken pump we currently have.

growing our own food from harvested rainwater

tomato harvest from just the other day, also got summer squash (cocozelle) and nasty tasting chicken feed cucumbers, and one pie pumpkin and one amber cup squash.

blessed with rains

life at the Spotty Dog Farm

our awesome geranium with three flowers going at once!

irrigation with harvested rain

Y-valve off our 275 gal. toteirrigating the three sisters garden yesterday evening:

rainwater harvesting

we made rocket pops. two flavors, pom-lime on the outside and orange-mango on the inside.

re-directed rain water

Spotty Dog Farm

4-way


3 gpm

a full day.

this was all today (the "day off") after we went to the DMV twice, got a new SS card and finally new drivers lincences .. also Becke got a new cell phone for the first time in like five years.

living-room/ green-house is emptying out as we plant more and more seedlings..

water holding capacity UP!

here is our new water container. went and picked it up this morning. holds 275 gal.

spring has sprung!

both these photos i took with my camera phone, so the quality suffers..but becke took the camera with her to california for the next week, so any work/ progress will be documented by said phone till next wed.

more projects completed and seedlings

speckled roman tomatoes as of a few days ago:

here they are today with the walla-walla onions: