The news seems to come in three flavors. Best when mixed?

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So, finally, to the garden.  The idea was to set up then install the garden system.  Late getting started, despite the early rise.  I guess I drag my feet when I am pretty sure I don't want to know the answer.  Worst case, the garden would be a wash.  All weeds, no producers, just stop the watering, or at least focus on the bit that looks like it might produce.  Fair enough.  Best case?  The fittings go together like they were meant to, plants exist in numbers ensuring value to continue with watering, weeding looks manageable, fertilizing, and whatever else will go forward.

The news was a mix.  There are weeds, many, as tall as my chest.  There are also many plants.  Somehow, just weeding the circles around the plants and doing that hard and heavy for a while made it so those areas remained relatively weed free.  Oh, I am sure I lost a few plants.  But from what I could find, nowhere near what I thought might be gone after first seeing how horrid the weed situation is.  Further, just out of curiosity, I pulled on some of the weeds.  Most of them came up with just a minor tug.  I went on to clear up, if not completely free, one corner of weeds, opening a half dozen peppers to the sun.  Fair enough.  I ran out of steam at that point.  Break time.

After a little review, I think the garden is salvageable.  It will take a ton of work though.  The bad news?  Until the weeds are gone for the large part, there is no way to put in a drip watering system.  It is simply not doable.  I have to at least clear enough that I can FIND the plants.  That will take... a bit of work.  Between being burned out by that point, and running into time constraints from Burning Man and prep, I just don't know that there even would be time for what I wanted to do.

Good, bad, ugly.  Plenty of plants still growing, even fruiting.  Weeds coming on like an army.  Can't see all of the one through the other and will have to do some serious work to save what I can for any chance at some kind of harvest.  Oh, and either the timer dumbed out or someone changed the time.  It was watering at noon.  Now, I know it didn't do that when I set it up, if that has been a bit.  I checked to ensure it was watering at night and was out there in the days for weeks after, at the time it was sprinkling today.  Not cool.  It also looks like someone stopped my front lawn watering.  Yeah, sabotage.  Two items at the same times means it wasn't an accident.  Don't know which it was.  I suppose I simply have to check it more regularly.  Bleh.  Should have been anyway, but falling into holes doesn't leave much for more than trying to get psychic air.

Later.