I thought I was slick when I positioned my 330-gallon “Lake Turner” rain tank next to my garden. I was even slicker when I hooked up a timer to it a few weeks ago so that it automagically watered my tomato plants. However, my feeling smug stopped yesterday when I realized there was no water flowing through my drip hose.
Oops. It sure looked slick, though! No wonder some of my plants were looking a bit withered.
It turns out the timer I used was dutifully opening at the set time but the water pressure from the tank wasn’t enough to push through it. I switched to a different kind of timer yesterday and suddenly had a pleasing stream of water going to my ‘maters.
The moral of this story is to “measure twice,” as they say!