When we finally bought a decent hose, we showed a remarkable inability to learn from our mistakes and hooked it up to a cheap-o sprinkler. The water pressure caused the sprinkler to rise up and flop around in the dirt so that we had to drive spikes through it in order to keep it stable.
A million other little problems kept creeping up with our sprinkler system last year of which I will spare you the details.
So, this year we have created a new watering system. We put two poles in the ground in the middle of the garden. Initially, we attached oscillating sprinkler heads but these proved to be too powerful for our little space.
Then, Adam brought out the very first watering sprinkler-thing we ever used: The Pound of Rain. This he haphazardly attached to one of the poles and it watered the front half of our garden beautifully without also watering our neighbor's plots.
So, we bought another Pound of Rain (so that we'll have one in front and one in back) and found two tiki torches (on the side of the road) which will work better than the two poles when it comes to holding the Pound of Rain.
We are going to test it out today. If it works, we are going to bury the ugly bright yellow hose so that we aren't constantly tripping over it. Wish us luck!
UPDATE: New watering system works wonderfully. We weren't able to bury the eyesore of a hose tonight but hopefully we'll get to it next weekend.
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