Water Your Garden Without a Pump — The Old Italian Way

Water Your Garden Without a Pump — The Old Italian Way In the town where I was born, it barely rained from May to September, and my nonna's tomatoes never went thirsty a single day. No pump, no electricity, no faucet, no hose. She used ideas so old that the words for them were not even Italian. They were Arabic, and they came to Sicily more than 1,000 years ago. In this one I show you the oldest pump in the world and how to put it to work for free, how to catch hundreds of gallons of rain off your own roof, the ring of earth my nonna built around every plant, the buried clay pot that waters your tomatoes by itself and knows when to stop, and the one mistake that turns a gravity system into a sad little trickle. Tell me down in the comments, what do you grow, and did your grandparents have a garden and a way of watering it that you still remember? I read every one. Keep the old ways. They fed us. #GardenHacks #RainBarrel #OldWays #Olla #OldItalian