Irrigation

We've spent this afternoon starting to install an irrigation system in the vegetable beds. Last June, we put one into the fruit beds, which works fairly well: it's been so warm and dry that we decided it was time to add one to the rest of the kitchen garden.

Accordingly, we've put in two 13mm supply hoses, one running down the rectangular bed and around the edge of the C-bed; one running around the Q-bed. Doesn't sound like a lot of work, put like that. Each loop can be connected individually to the main hose (I think it'll only be one at a time, as the pressure's probably insufficient to cope with more than one loop), and will feed a number of spray nozzles—that's tomorrow's work.

While we were working on that, we also earthed up the potatoes, almost all of which are coming up fast. In theory, we might start harvesting the Rocket in three weeks.