[Tatze]

Watering, or knowing when to water, seems to be my weak point. I try to water every morning. By the afternoon, everything looks dry. Then reading up on various veggies, one said water once a week, maybe twice in the heat, but don’t let them dry out. Well, in this heat, they are dried out by the afternoon. Longer morning watering?

And I will work on a drip or irrigation system for next year so I am not watering the leaves as much.

[tubebender]

You want to soak the roots when you water and not sprinkle overhear on the foliage. Even a soaker hose would suffice but the trick is to dig down and see how far the water penetrated the soil. My growing conditions are so different then 95% of the gardeners on these threads due to our cool dry summers and our soil takes and holds moisture extremely well. Our ten day Forecast