I was getting impatient, so I started planting even though it’s still too cold. I have friends who swear by their wall-o-waters as season extenders, but whenever I see them in the store they’re always more than i can justify spending. Well, it occurred to me that I could make my own, sort of.
I cut the bottom off of a 20oz plastic bottle, cut the top and bottom off a milk jug, and filled some plastic ziplock baggies half-full of water. Then I stuck a tomato cutting in the ground (from my indoor tomato vine, it’ll root anywhere it has moisture), and set the 20oz bottle over it. Then I put the milk jug around that, and anchored it with 2 lanscape staples stuck through holes in the sides. Lastly I filled the space between the two bottles with the bags of water.
We haven’t had our April snowstorm yet, although we’ve had a few nights dip into the lower 30’s. Every time I check, that cutting is still green, so I decided to do the same with a couple of zucchinni seeds. We’ll see how it goes.
That sounds like a good improvization to me. If I am going to use water, I usually just fill up milk jugs and line the sides, back, and middle of the 3x4 foot space with the jugs.
Then cover it with row covers or sheets, and maybe a bunch of straw on top, if it’s really cold, but that’s for the winter garden. Spring garden not so much.
Plant hardy stuff and put on row cover. Start tender stuff indoors is pretty much it for me. I am especially lacking in energy this spring, so not doing much that requires ingenuity or effort.LOL