Hooray for the rain water barrel!

It's been really, really dry around here. You can see all the dead grass at my feet. We don't waste a single drop of water on the useless grass...all of the water we have goes to the veggies. We had a little bit of rain the other day, just enough to fill the barrel again about halfway.


We fill empty soda bottles collected from the nearby park (we're not soda drinkers ourselves) and put them onto water stakes that stick down into the ground by the plants' roots. This helps the water get where it really needs to be, and we lose less to evaporation in the heat. It's been just at least 90 or higher for the last 10 days or so, so the plants need every drop of water they can get.