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December Garden
Jan. 5th, 2020 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tielanAs you may have heard, rather large swathes of Australia are on fire. We're in a major drought.
Sydney has moved to Level 2 water restrictions, which means no watering/hosing off with a hose. Most of the listed exemptions are regarding either firefighting or making things look 'nice' (ie. green acres of suburbia; you can get a permit to put a new lawn in and water it with a hose for six weeks) rather than for gardening.
You can run a drip irrigation system in a garden for 15mins. Which isn't really enough to get the soil wet enough, even if things are planted right blow the dripper point.
Otherwise it's buckets all the way.
It does mean occasionally refilling the bathtub pond by bucket:
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It's gonna be a long summer...
Sydney has moved to Level 2 water restrictions, which means no watering/hosing off with a hose. Most of the listed exemptions are regarding either firefighting or making things look 'nice' (ie. green acres of suburbia; you can get a permit to put a new lawn in and water it with a hose for six weeks) rather than for gardening.
You can run a drip irrigation system in a garden for 15mins. Which isn't really enough to get the soil wet enough, even if things are planted right blow the dripper point.
Otherwise it's buckets all the way.
It does mean occasionally refilling the bathtub pond by bucket:
( more )
It's gonna be a long summer...