Day laboring

[scullin]

It's rather surprising how many people who see us working in our yard assume that it couldn't possibly be our yard. Apparently one doesn't do yard work anymore, that's what cheap day labor is for. We're heard rumors that some of our neighbors work in their yards, but we never catch them doing it. Usually it's three guys with a rented pickup, a weed

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[violentbloom]

just remember the rain won't last. Install an irrigation system before you need a pickax again..
you've probably got at least er, a month tops.

[scullin]

I've tried to adhere fairly closely to the zero-scaping guidelines for irrigation free landscaping. What made last summer so touch and go was that most drought resistant plants are drought resistant "once established," which is not a clearly defined term. Several supposedly drought resistant plants turned to potpourri the moment I stopped watering them.

Typical of all things with this house, there is a irrigation system control next to the outside spigot, but no sign of where water would come out if I were to go to the effort of hooking it back up. I suspect I would get a geyser somewhere in the middle of the lawn.

[violentbloom]

yeah "once established" can mean about 2 years. Or that was my experience.. Though after the first summer it seemed to also mean that I could ignore them some but then they didn't grow at all.
Mint though, that shit will grow anywhere!
Or Kudzu!

[ooiioo]

ah you're lucky! my "gardening" is limited to picking eggshells out of the astroturf carpeting in my kitchen.