Putting in a Drip System

My husband came home a couple weeks ago from one of his many, many trips to Home Depot and presented me with this:

I really hadn't given much consideration to our water set up. I was thinking hose + maybe a wand thingy. He said it cost around $25.00, so we both were pretty stoked and he worked on getting everything set up.

Here are a few action shots:

He then added some of these guys:

Super fancy huh? Hubby put these slow-soak hoses in and catastrophe struck - the water isn't soaking into the ground. Our soil is so awful, that it's just laying on top. Hubby's frustrated, I'm just plain perplexed and quite frankly just haven't had time to even research how to fix this problem. Anyone out there have a suggestion??

In other news, everyone is growing. We put in cauliflower and broccoli (and strawberries!) last weekend (5/11). I was informed last night that something is eating my spinach. So tonight, I'll be making the homemade pesticide. We also seem to have some ants in the garden that I plan to take care of with a little Borax action.

Many, many more updates to come.

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