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Some people have too much time on their hands.

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I never would have dreamed that installing an irrigation system in my garden would be a controversial matter. Then again, no one in my life has said anything derogatory about it… perhaps because the kind of people who would be that petty aren’t in my life.

Life is good.

However, upon watching a YouTube video recently, I came to learn of the drama that surrounds the drip irrigation vs. hand watering debate. My goodness, some people seem to have a lot of time of their hands!

One comment I read went so far as to proclaim that people who use drip irrigation are the same lazy scumbags who drop their kids off at daycare so they can ignore them.

Do I sense some misdirected anger here? That person obviously has a serious bee in their bonnet about something else…

Speaking of bees…

I won’t waste any more time on that so-called “debate”, only to say if your method of watering is getting water to your plants, good for you! If your plants are growing and producing, you’re doing it right.

Are there b…

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