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episode of the pantry chat, food for thought.

This week we're talking about water saving gardening hacks for the August garden.

We're coming up to that really hot season in the garden.

You know, you're wilting. The animals look like they're wilting, but the plants are wilting too. And the answer

to that is often get them a little bit more water, but what are you going to do? Run your sprinkler

24-7. So we're going to be talking about some things to consider to save some water.

Water management tips for the heat of summer.

There you go.

All right.

But before we get into the heat of the conversation, a little bit of chit-chat.

What's going on with you?

You know, I still feel, I think I said this last time, we're kind of in that low, that summer

lull, everything's planted.

We've kind of been able to mostly put the garden by, like stop weeding, not, that's a

term I learned from, from Sean and Beth Doherty, a historical term of putting the garden by, where you kind of get it to where the plants are big enough, so you're not having to do intensive weeding all the time.

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