Re: [CH] watering question
Suz (socalsuz@earthlink.net)
Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:59:23 -0700
A guy from the nursery told me that when the sun shines on the drops of
water on the leaves of plants, it's like a magnifying glass and will burn.
It sounds reasonable. But we don't get rain here in the desert during
growing season.
Squirrels got into one of my pepper patches and ate all the leaves off the
red habs. One got so tangled up in the net, that he hung himself. heh heh
heh ... sweet revenge.
I'm ready to get out the gun. Thankfully, I have plenty more peppers that
look healthy, but it's still so sad to see the little babies get eaten by
rodents.
http://home.earthlink.net/~socalsuz
> >A friend of mine has a few plants next to her neighbor's garden. She was
> >using a sprinkler to water and her neighbor asked her to please turn it
> >off, because spraying could damage their plants and that the leaves get
> >all the moisture they need from the rain. They only water with pipes
> >from the ground level.