We had a busy couple of days this week. Two workers came to dig a diversion ditch that will act as an overflow for the irrigation water from the oued. It will be filled with gravel so water can filter through it but we will still be able to walk over it. Kawtar and I finished stripping the zeitoun leaves, and Hassan created a new berm for a tree I hope will be arriving soon.
Kareem and Hassan digging the diversion ditch
for the oued irrigation system.
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Our bean plants are flowering but there are no pollinators in sight.
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Kawtar using the "beat the bush" system of stripping the leaves off
of zeitoun branches. That job has been completed, next is trimming
the branches to size them for either mulch or fire starting.
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Zeitoun berms mulched with leaves.
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Piles of stripped branches and compost pile in the center.
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Hassan made us a new berm next to the zai garden for a
palo verdi/Jerusalem thorn I hope to have soon. I have
loved these trees since my Arizona years and plan on
having at least two on the property.
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Our old neighbor on Zeitoun Lakdim made us a couple of canvas covers for the water tanks. Between those and the black paint,
we hope to keep the algae issue to a minimum.
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