Another shot from the garden. It has rained a lot today, so I played with the light to make it come out starker and more autumnal than the ones taken earlier in the week, when it was sunnier.
Our backyard is crap to begin with, and for the last two months we're about five inches below normal rainfall, so the yard is mostly brown. I really have to break down and use the sprinkler a bit, but I hate the excessive way many people water their lawns.
Actually, I do prefer it cooler, but bits of the UK are on flood alert again (and we're on a flat bit). I should take a photo of the lawn, though: green and growing, Treebeard would surely approve.
I was amazed in NC to see that the brand new grass verges along the road had had sprinklers built into them.
We Yanks are crazy for sprinklers. And those built-in sprinklers you saw are probably on a timer that activates them even if it's raining, which I've seen happen.
We may destroy our water tables, we may pollute our rivers with chemical run off, but, dammit, we WILL have green grass, and we will have it EVERYWHERE!
We will have it on the verges, we will have it during drought, and we will have it in the desert! We will never surrender!
If you have to water, doing it in the evening minimises the amount lost to evaporation before it soaks in.
Using a watering can instead of a sprinkler also reduces evaporation losses
Another handy trick - if you have to wait for ages for water to run hot like I do - collect the cold/luke warm water in a bowl and tip that over the lawn.
Also, if you have a water butt to collect rain off your roof, you can use that for the lawn (it's the best water of all as it's no chlorine or water-purification chemicals - they're not particularly bad, but without is better)
Thank you! I'm not really doing much with the pictures, just cropping them and then playing with auto-correct and the brightness and contrast until it looks right.
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:55 pm (UTC)Our backyard is crap to begin with, and for the last two months we're about five inches below normal rainfall, so the yard is mostly brown. I really have to break down and use the sprinkler a bit, but I hate the excessive way many people water their lawns.
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Date: 2008-08-13 05:59 pm (UTC)Actually, I do prefer it cooler, but bits of the UK are on flood alert again (and we're on a flat bit). I should take a photo of the lawn, though: green and growing, Treebeard would surely approve.
I was amazed in NC to see that the brand new grass verges along the road had had sprinklers built into them.
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Date: 2008-08-13 06:35 pm (UTC)We may destroy our water tables, we may pollute our rivers with chemical run off, but, dammit, we WILL have green grass, and we will have it EVERYWHERE!
We will have it on the verges, we will have it during drought, and we will have it in the desert! We will never surrender!
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Date: 2008-08-13 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 06:18 pm (UTC)Using a watering can instead of a sprinkler also reduces evaporation losses
Another handy trick - if you have to wait for ages for water to run hot like I do - collect the cold/luke warm water in a bowl and tip that over the lawn.
Also, if you have a water butt to collect rain off your roof, you can use that for the lawn (it's the best water of all as it's no chlorine or water-purification chemicals - they're not particularly bad, but without is better)
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Date: 2008-08-13 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-14 08:15 pm (UTC)