Hello Everyone and it feels like the start of dry season again.  That means (for us, anyway) that it is very, very hot and the plants need to be watered.  The secret of Gnome and Munchkin’s success, this year, in keeping a little vegetable garden going at this time of the year is because of our  little cesspool.

Nice vegetables growing healthily and happily:

Because of our little cesspool:

Gnome has fixed things in such a way (with an uncomplicated system of drainage pipes and siphons) to drain all our grey water into this pool.  Right now, this includes mostly washing-up and laundry water.  He will be working on a new shower location in the dry season which will drain water directly into this pool.   The duckies also swim about poop in it adding further wonderful nutrients to the bubbling chaos.  In other words, this is our very own home-made “plant food”; this provides  all the plant nutrient requirements to make our vegetables grow with vigour and lushness.

When I asked Gnome to read this blog post, he said it was “okay.”  I asked him why he thought it was just “okay.”  He replied by saying that the title of my post did not evoke thoughts of Munchkin and Gnome being “cool and exciting.”

Well, I asked him, “what should I say instead?” 

Gnome said, cheekily, “howz about ‘M & G’s Organic Electrolyte Balanced Maximum Velocity Irrigation Water??!!!”

I said, “yes of course, darling.”

…stared blankly at the computer screen, blinked once, didn’t even think twice about changing the title, and pressed the “publish” button.

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