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Robert Walton wrote:
> .
> > I planted 47 Paulownia elongatas and 22 black walnuts trees
>
> Oh yes, will you irrigate them this summer (I ask half tongue in
> cheek, half seriously)?
>
> Rob - Va
If the rain continues, I'll be digging trenches....
Yes, if we don't get rain for a week, or get a lot of rain, I will be 
wetting them down.  Yesterday I developed a system of sorts, using 5 
gallon buckets and my 8 cu ft wheelbarrow.  I fill up the bucket and the 
barrow and carry the water down to the front.  I then bucket the water 
from the barrow to the trees.  A 5 gallon bucket does about 3 trees, and 
it takes two wheelbarrow trips to do all the trees.

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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public 
debt  should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered 
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed 
lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of 
living on public assistance."

--Cicero, 55 BC
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