I Hired a Sitter

[livius drusus]

Okay, I didn't so much hire as buy one, and it's not an Eastern European au pair, either, but a sweet little terracotta watering spike (http://www.gardeners.com/Plant-Sitter/11861,default,pd.html) that siphons water out of a tank and relays it to your plant only when it's dry down at the root.

I've hooked it up to my thyme plant because it's been having some problems lately. Since it's a creeper, it's hard to water it enough to withstand the summer heat without soaking the base of the stems. If the sitter does what it's supposed to do, my thyme will get as much water as it wants whenever it wants it without a drop on the leaves and stems.

:pleased:

[viscousmemories]

Nice! I should get that for my indoor plant.

[godfry n. glad]

Whew!

I thought you were going to leave us and got a sitter for vm.

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Clutch Munny]

If only I'd known of this product when the children were younger.

[Ymir's blood]

I thought that maybe she'd had to get an assistant to help manage the hoard.

[Watser?]

:bullwhip:

[Doctor X]

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She waters plants?

--J.D.

[livius drusus]

I have a shocking update. The thyme is doing great -- growing new shoots all over the place -- but that's not what's shocking. I hooked the rosemary up to a sitter of its own a few days after I did the thyme, and it is sucking down water like a dehydrated sailor.

The rosemary tank is two thirds gone, while the tank on the thyme is maybe a quarter gone. It's not a leak or a self-calibration error either, because the plant has exploded with new growth. There are no yellow leaves indicating overwatering, no limp branches.

So the rosemary, which I watered the least in volume is in actuality way, way thirstier than the thyme. Who the hell knew?

[Plant Woman]

Beware of mutant, water-hogging rosemary.

[JoeP]

Beware of mutant, water-hogging rosemary.

We need a smilie of that.

[BrotherMan]

water me, seymour
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