New Year's day was beautiful-cool crisp morning, blue skies
and a warm sunny afternoon at the garden home. We are
surrounded on two sides by olive (zeitoun) groves and
to the south is a long ridge that heads off to the Atlas
Mountains, which can be seen in the top right of the photo.
We have a lot of thorny plants here, like in all desert areas, and I know to watch out for the thorns but this is the most impressive thorn I have ever seen on an acacia!
We tested the diversion ditch that the guys dug and filled with gravel. I had given them a level and explained that we needed the water to flow across the property to the north bamboo grove but as usual, my "explanation" was done mostly in pantomime and demonstration. I am never quite sure if I have gotten my desires across or not. So I ordered an extra tank of water, and we directed the outlet hose to the high spot of the ditch (or so I hoped) and turned the valve on. We made depressions in the gravel at regular intervals to watch the water's direction. It worked beautifully and I am so happy with the result. The next step will be deciding how I want to handle the access into the bamboo grove when the water from the oued is available, yet keep it closed when we are using purchased water for the regular watering of the bamboo grove. I seem to be able to manage all of this kind of stuff just one step of a time, or it is overwhelming.
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