Gingers

We have this abandoned water softener drum which we were using to catch surge from our grey water laundry operation.  Initially, it was hooked to a hose spigot, but we found kinks in the hose were a recipe for fail and the hose itself tended to gum up with debris over time.  So we worked out a pvc pipe aqueduct which routed the water to our baby lemon tree.  Initially, the lemon tree jammed.  Flowers everywhere.  Fruit set like crazy.  Then the older leaves turned yellow and the younger leaves curled up like deformed claws.  Hmm.  I thought Citrus Leaf Miners, whose handiwork looks something like this.

Magyver's cross-the-yard diagnosis was over-watering.  So we reflected our pvc aqueduct on its axis to give the lemon's roots time to dry off.  Its leaves don't look like they're rallying yet, but the fruit has definitely moved from unripe green to bright yellow pretty quickly over the last 2 weeks.  This leaves us with a flood irrigated swath of land with nothing planted in it.

So I transplanted a ginger root that I bought in the grocery store, stuck in a pot (with a bean plant to remind me to water it), and was surprised to see had sprouted.  Ginger is MacGyver's euphemism for the QA department, based loosely off some stereotypes offered during a South Park episode.  The general joke is that their team has a tendency to grow like weeds and not have much to show for themselves (it's all underground!)  At any rate, that may fit the bill for this particular swampy area...    

In the process, I also dumped out the again-clogged grey water cistern, which Rho rolled in and is now pictured sporting very stinky cologne.  This is an iterative process.