Hi greeneyes! God Bless& good weekend wishes back to you! Things are heating up here. Greenie beans, okras & Valley Whatever-they-are are going great guns.
Everything but the pepper is. Not sure why. Last year, we had (I think) California Wonder & it was a wild man. Our little strawberry is so sweet, you don’t even need sugar. We’re only getting about 6 or 7 at a time.
No more leaf miners so far (fingers crossed).
Squash & corn are way late, but DH might get an assignment in Houston next week, so I’m wondering if I should plant. Squash/ cowpeas will be in a 3x6 bed. The others are containers so maybe we can farm them out with a neighbor.
I have been thinking about doing some long term watering using clay pots. For these you take two of the pots and glue the tops together. Use waterproof caulk around the rims and plug up the bottom hole and caulk it too.
Stick a plastic tube in the top hole. Bury the containers in the ground. Fill them up with water (using a funnel to help). The water will seep gradually through the pots and keep the plants watered.
I also have some ceramic watering gizmos that screw onto a soda bottle and fit into a ceramic spike that keeps important plants like my lemon tree watered and is really handy when I want to give it a dose of liquid feed.