The rainy season has finally arrived.  With that, sweet potato leaves are  growing quite well. Also, the more you cut it the more they grow.

Sweet potato leaves are extremely nutritious and a tasty green leafy vegetable. It is another green that one can grow and eat rather than spending money on spinach.

Nutritional benefits:
http://ifitandhealthy.com/eating-healthy-sweet-potato-leaves/

How to cook:
http://nymag.com/restaurants/recipes/inseason/sweet-potato-leaves-2011-9/

The irrigation pump needed new gaskets and seals after 10 years of use. In order to check repair work needed to devise a test setup which consisted of mounting pump on wood base, wiring pump through a test 220 Vac set up to a portable generator.  Water was then pumped out of two 25 gallon rain barrels.  In order to keep up with the volume of water being pumped out, a second pump connected to the well was filling the rain barrel.  Results of test, no leaks. Pump is now in storage as a backup to replace the one currently being used when it fails.

Water from rain barrel was used to water garden. There was in fact a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!