Latest idea for watering.

Very adjustable. Still experimenting with it (hence the stool). Does a nice curtain. Full circle to partial circle, many nozzles. Doesn’t adjust water pressure, though. If you’re interested in further particulars, use my contact form and I’ll let you know where I found this.

And this is why. Scale. Those black dots on the pine needles - insects that suck the sap out of needles. Causes “Lion’s Tail” effect on pine trees. They establish themselves in May/June, killing needles over the next winter, looking like this next spring. Little bastards play the long game. Blasting trunks with high pressure water gets their larval stage off - cheapest way to deal with them. No amount of pressure will get these black buggers off in this late stage. You just have to accept the bare nature of the trees. They will survive, though they’ll look like death until the next (clear) year.

Climate change has made this a huge issue in our local area. Pines don’t have enough water to generate generous sap. If a neighbor doesn’t treat, this comes back again and again and again and again … and again … (stop me now) …

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