Rainwater Collection: Diary

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I guess I should fess up, since diaries have been mentioned. I was going to detail what went wrong with the pinons in another article - and focus on the successes - and I still plan to. The pinon pine were overwatered. I think that the third watering should come only after the soil is very dry. Pinons go from water needing seedlings to fledgling xeric trees very quickly. The pinon which lasted keeled over a couple of times from being too dry, but never from being too wet. The ones which were too wet didn't survive. I'll talk about what killed them later, but it will probably be much later since more people seem to be interested in rain water collection than in pinons.

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