Water Matters

This is the Blimp. It catches rain from the roof and stores it until we are ready to use it on the veggie patch. It finally ran dry a couple of days ago. so now we have to connect a hose from the house to fill the blimp. Then we use a pump to transfer the water from the blimp over these rocks... Across this bit of ground (cleverly buried pipe)... and then into the mini blimps in the veggie patch.... Ooops... this one is leaking... you can see Steve in the background hot footing it back to the house to turn the pump off. It only takes a couple of rainstorms to refill the big blimp, but its unlikely that we will have a decent rain storm until the autumn now. Summer storms do happen and they are regularly forecast but as the song goes... the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain... well... it often misses us and we can see it across the plain in the distance. The garden has received a lot of attention this spring and is looking the best it ever