Once we had the garden cleared of grass and defined areas for our beds, we were ready to set up the irrigation.
Thankfully, the parent volunteer that had established the gardens years ago had done the hard part of getting the main pipes in the ground and working with our district irrigation technician to connect it to the main line and a timer.
We just had to connect our spaghetti lines to the water pipes and put them where we wanted them. Problem one, we were out of money. Problem two, we had no idea how to do it. I still don’t know how to work with the water system. Our irrigation tech gave me the manual, but I can’t seem to absorb the information.
The day before we were set to have volunteers arrive I watched a youtube video on how to put in spaghetti lines. The morning of I ran to our local hardware store to purchase new lines (I was using my own money at this point to fill in all these little purchases).
A very nice worker came to help and he asked what size tubing we needed. Well, that part wasn’t in the youtube video! I had no idea there were different sizes and different rates of letting water out and different tools to cut and poke the lines, and oh, no.
So I showed up to school empty handed and not sure what we were going to do, and not sure if we had exhausted all of our volunteers by this point, when this amazing dad arrived and saved the day. He purchased the lines and installed them all.
Thank goodness for miracles. We had water.
Next week: Time to plant with the kids!
Love,
Ms. Holland
Click on the montage below to go back in time to previous posts about getting started, getting rid of grass, creating defined beds, and preventing the grass from coming back.
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