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Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread

Yesterday, I went and bought some flowers and some hot peppers. Today, I spent an hour prepping the soil and planting everything. It took less than an hour and a half, but all that bending, getting on and off my knees, etc, in the sun just about did me in.

Some years ago, I heard about letting a hose trickle under a tree for a few hours. I took that idea a step further with a couple of 6gal. buckets that I drilled 6 holes, 1/4" each, around the bottom of them. I place them about 3' apart, at the drip lines of the branches - they say the ends of the roots is a good place to water a tree - who knows? I fill up the first bucket, and when it's full, the hose gets switched to the 2nd bucket, and it fills while the first one drains out. The buckets get leap-frogged around the tree, maybe a dozen fills/drains. I read a paper that gave a ratio of the overall width of the tree and the number of gallons of water.