picked about 20 big zuchini on sunday, and put them in a wheel barrow with a free sign on it, They lasted until the afternoon. One guy asked if the wheel barrow was free.
Went out of town for a week,and after not having any rain for so long I can't remember, we had rain twice while I was gone and again the day I came home.So I'll be picking weeds when it dries out.
Getting alot of cukes and zuchini I have one green pepper on 8 plants. we had a good rain a week ago and I watered today for the first time since. now my rain water barrel is low. I have alot of banana peppers. when I bought them they were labeled mild, but these suckers are hot. I did some...
I just noticed that I have a green pepper about the size of a golf ball on one plant. Cukes are about an inch long, and the zucc's are about 4in, a little behind the rest of you, but I'm catching up. strawberries are almost done, been training the runners back into the rest of the plants...
I tried a milk bottle with holes but kept plugging the holes with mud so I went to a bottle with an airline about 1in from the bottom, and cracking the cap alittle allows the water to drip out nice and slow, and the inch of water in the jug prevents the jug from blowing away.
here is one example of drip systems with 2 litre bottles showing what size hole to use.
http://www.veggiegardener.com/watering-tomatoes-using-2-liter-sod-bottle/
I'm having a deer problem now, The only thing in the garden that's ripe are strawberrys, I put chicken wire around them to keep the small critters out, now the deer are eating the plants from above.
I walk through the garden every day before the sun gets on it, and it doesn't take long to pull any weeds. Yesterday I put chicken wire around the strawberrys as there was evidence of something eating them. Today I noticed that some of the leaves near the wire was nipped off so maybe there's...