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We've hit upon something that's currently working rather well in the garden - a fan sprinkler. I put a soil moisture monitor out there, and the sprinkler can get things to about 93%, then we shut it off. Currently we're doing this twice a day, thirty minutes early in the morning and late in the evening - times when the water can actually soak down into the soil without being cooked out by the sun. We have tomatoes, pumpkins, basil, and roselle so far.
Roselle is also known as hibiscus, but this kind doesn't produce the flowers you see on Hawaiian shirts - it produces Jamaican sorrel, or Florida cranberry. This is the stuff you see in Red Zinger tea, and the calyxes you need to harvest in order to make hibiscus jam, something I found was a staple of "cracker" cooking but now sells for a zillion dollars a pint online. That's not to say it doesn't produce pretty flowers - just that it's edible.
We were out this morning on a run over to Jeremy's place and saw a bobcat! YAY! I told Fox there were bobcats around, I see the tracks sometimes in the sand on the road. Or as I told him, it's either a bobcat or a REALLY large house cat. I also got to see a wild Turkey hen while I was out for a run, and she had three chicks following along behind her. And on Sunday I heard some young Crows. They were hard to see, having perched up near the top of a pine, but they had those nasal voices, rather than an adult bird's honest-to-goodness "caw!"
We actually had a busy-ish weekend and I haven't had much chance to write or so anything creative. I also keep forgetting that I need to set up my drawing tablet again. I did go ahead and re-install the drivers and software, but I haven't lugged my computer out of its little spot on my desk to actually hook up the cables. I'm not sure what I want to draw, just thinking I ought to draw something.
Roselle is also known as hibiscus, but this kind doesn't produce the flowers you see on Hawaiian shirts - it produces Jamaican sorrel, or Florida cranberry. This is the stuff you see in Red Zinger tea, and the calyxes you need to harvest in order to make hibiscus jam, something I found was a staple of "cracker" cooking but now sells for a zillion dollars a pint online. That's not to say it doesn't produce pretty flowers - just that it's edible.
We were out this morning on a run over to Jeremy's place and saw a bobcat! YAY! I told Fox there were bobcats around, I see the tracks sometimes in the sand on the road. Or as I told him, it's either a bobcat or a REALLY large house cat. I also got to see a wild Turkey hen while I was out for a run, and she had three chicks following along behind her. And on Sunday I heard some young Crows. They were hard to see, having perched up near the top of a pine, but they had those nasal voices, rather than an adult bird's honest-to-goodness "caw!"
We actually had a busy-ish weekend and I haven't had much chance to write or so anything creative. I also keep forgetting that I need to set up my drawing tablet again. I did go ahead and re-install the drivers and software, but I haven't lugged my computer out of its little spot on my desk to actually hook up the cables. I'm not sure what I want to draw, just thinking I ought to draw something.
