Returned from 11 days in Arizona (GREAT vacation!) to find
that
the pump on my well had burned out about 4 days into the
vacation.

Had enough rain so my bigger (10 inches) trees came though,
damaged but alive. The tiny ones, however, were toast.
About 30
trees.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - 30 trees
and
$1400 poorer.

That's a real shame Jim.
I don't know how many times I've heard similar stories from
people relying
on watering systems.
When I worked putting in annual gardens in Akron Ohio we had
sprinkler
system on all of them.They were under CONSTANT repair,
especially the auto
controlled ones over the manual turn on-shut off type. They
have as many
problems as you can imagine scenarios for!

I'd never trust one, sooner or later, something like this
always seems to
happen. ( now we'll hear from everyone who has one and never
had a problem!

It wasn't a watering system, Dale. It was my well. The thing
that gives me and my horses and my wife's aunt and our garden the
water we need to drink and otherwise survive. If it had been
something as simple as a defunct watering system, our
house-horse-cat-dog sitter could have coped

However, I've used an automatic waterer for years and years and
years with no problems. The "secret" is to install new batteries
when you leave -- whether the unit "needs" them or not.



P.S. I guess you'll be doing some hefty shopping at BSF this
year :)
P.P.S. I'll bet none of those pots died!

Pots are fine, but empty -- which is a damned poor state for pots
to find themselves in. :-(

As far as shopping goes, after paying for a new pump and the
labor required to pull the old one up from 230 feet below the
surface then put the new one down to 230 feet below the surface,
probably not. Sorry.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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