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 I finish to this point a few days later I think and well, back to life with a few businesses to run, a pregnant wife, a fantastic kid and well life. A earthquake hits a month after this and all that falls off is a connector pipe. The germination is what is slowing things down on the growing side. Most my seeds are duds and wife while pregnant has gotten tired of leaning over the toilet in the staff quarters (my office) to check on the seeds.

 We buy some fresh seeds and during this time we realize how difficult it might be trying to grow some plants with a fog that will just roll in and sit. Temperature is perfect day and night but this rain and fog is wrecking wife's garden and it is producing enough for wife to claim victory in the garden experiment. So time to save all the tomato plants. Time to go back and use the dreaded bamboo. Ugh by now it is growing like a weed in all the spots I just cut back. Something tells this straight line landscaping German might not like being enclosed and approached upon by the bamboo. The bamboo war has begun.

 The pump has 120 foot of head eh! I used 1/2" pvc up and down. All connections have valves which can control flow to a degree and are mostly used to flood tubes.

 The system sat in this state for a while during that time I played with ph, fertilizers and flow/rise rates, thinking I would get a timer going. But, mostly it just sat in this state for a month or two.

 Holy you know what, that morning when you wake up and wife is talking to you while you are still sleepy telling you something you need to do and bam .... wife is showing she is pregnant big time. Wow, you are awake, I need food, shelter, get the drive on! Get all projects finished, ring the church bell it must hit the hills a chiming.

 The fix on the wife's garden worked for strength and keeping the water out. Time to apply it to the backyard with the urgency of a man who only gets stressed about having a child.

 Germination is not far enough for roots but I can flood the tubes anyways. Get them wee ones out to the tubes and see what will happen. Cause you know it will not just go easy right ... 

See that horseradish in the buckets ... nice eh.

 So this is us now. Not bad, I am producing and in a constant state of germination, cuttings and working on a couple of graphs.

 I'm digging it, still hump up the hill every day and flood tubes manually but hey, I am producing!

 Yes, I have conquered to a degree the mountain of hill!

 Wife is due on the 18th of this month and well, keep moving forward. Try and be a positive, not going to spout some hippy shit at you but growing your own food is just so ...well NATURAL.

 I'll be honest, I just sat here and wrote this over the last 6 or something hours straight through the night. It did not really hit me all the things this project has been until the last post and I read it again from the start.

 Now, I am listening to the tropical birds full of get the hell up World mode and I'm looking over my garden with pride.

 Might just go pick me a green pepper and some golden berries.