Finally, the sprinkler system is fixed. Now we can actually water our lawn, which was busily dying on us. We could have watered it with a hose using city water, but there's a reason we have pressurized irrigation water here, and I hate to pay more to use city water during irrigation season, when the water is so much more affordable.
We'd been using city water on the garden--giving it almost-daily drinks with a watering can. My two planting beds along the north fence will have to be watered by hand for a while longer, as there's no drip system hooked up to them as there is in the main garden spot. But that's manageable unless we have to go out of town for too long at a time.
The tomatoes are still alive, and the instances of yellowed leaves were caused by the same issue--water. Now we're getting a handle on how much to water the plants in coconut-fiber or peat pots to keep them from drying out. I transplanted the largest tomatoes to 4-inch coconut-fiber pots, and separated out all the Carantan leeks, each into its own 3-inch peat pot. In that one little starter flat, I had nineteen leeks. I could have had twenty-one if I'd wanted to transplant the two tiniest leek seedlings, but I decided not to bother with those, since they were so much smaller than all the others.
Outside, the spinach planted last fall is getting nearly big enough to eat, we have lots of volunteer baby lambs' quarters both in and out of the garden boxes, the lettuce is coming up, and so are the more recently planted spinach and the snow pea plants. It seems that the worst frosts are behind us, but I say that with extreme caution. At least the apple tree waited until a couple of days after the most recent freeze to blossom out. Maybe we'll get more than seven or eight apples this year.
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