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Yeah. In fact, I had to scale back what I had bobbing around in my noggin last fall because of the spill I took off the porch during the holidays. My back still isn’t quite right. So I lined the wall of the patio with 16” pots, and reused the big wooden crate we were using as a planter. I was able to get a few beautiful bush cukes going, a 24” pot with high-yield green beans that I just started to trellis, about 20 (winter) spaghetti squash plants, and - I’m not making this up - a good fifty Roma tomato plants. I also just started some sweet bell peppers, as well, and I have my usual hot peppers going. The cukes, squash, and green beans are already starting to bloom and, amongst the toils of my labors this week, I just transplanted about 25 Romas and a dozen squash plants. They seem to be responding well to a good watering, and I got most of the root systems, but it remains to be seen how many of them suffer from root shock in the next day. I didn’t have a choice because they’d all have become root-bound by the time they bloomed. Regardless of the mortality rate, we should still see a decent harvest. My big sin is that I always try to pack more plants into less square footage than they really need, but I think I may have a little better luck in this instance. The big garden plot has lain fallow because I’m in no shape to go out there with the tiller and really give it the churning it needs this year, plus part of the fence has been so mangled by falling tree branches, it really needs rebuilt.

He's no snowflake. But he does have the smart ass gene like me, and I think (to his mother's dismay) that I helped nurture it. LOLOL I told Connie that he's like Pig Pen come to life, and she should stick a broom up his butt so he can sweep the floor behind him when he leaves the room. I feel like a maid at Motel 6 when he finally goes home. 😆

Well, A: rainwater, and B: we have one of several kinds of oscillating sprinklers. There’s a water tap built into an alcove in the pool area adjacent to the HVAC unit, and I ran a hose along the foundation, snaked it behind the HVAC unit, along/behind all the pool waterworks, and out the pool fence. It’s all foundation level and secured, so nobody will trip over it, and for the most part, even see it. There’s a concrete pad transition between the patio and back yard, and we have one of those big hose reels sitting there, so we just reel out enough hose to run through the gate and reach the center of the patio. Attach the sprinkler, then go back and turn on the water. The one drawback is, if you don’t go through the gate at the other end of the pool and come in through the garage, you’re getting a good shower running for the back door. LOL

That’s a jerry-rigged manual system. Actually, semi-manual. I don’t know where she put it, but we had one of those timer valves attached last year. You turn the knob like an egg timer, turn the water on, and it’ll shut off when it hits zero. You still have to cut the tap off, but you won’t get a shower in the process.

Yeah, you can mate a three-way or four-way gang valve to a single outlet timer like ours, too. We have a couple of those. Remember, this house was previously owned by a landscaper, and the rear was his outdoor greenhouse. He ran an entire network of commercial-grade plumbing underground. All we need to do is hook hose A to tap B, etc, turn them on, and the entire back yard looks like the fountains of Paris. One of my many current projects is cleaning out and organizing the garage again. It looks like the NTSB stored the wreck of a 707 in there. Those timers and gang valves are hiding in there somewhere, and I’m going to find them. Oh, BTW - looks like, for the most part, the transplants survived the surgery out back. We’re liable to be swimming in veggies this fall. Does you good to keep a subscription to Mother Earth News.

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