No I do not have pictures.
But these webpages are similar in the design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7epwvwVtghM
http://greenroofgrowers.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-make-two-bucket-sub-irrigated.html
Thanks man, I'll check it out. I haven't had much luck with my tomatoes. I tried to save the three I had planted and I did get about 12 tomatoes off the vines before they really got bad and didn't produce anymore. I started over with a different breed. This one, "celebrity", is supposed to be resistant to disease. We'll see.
I also pulled all my wormy zucchini and low and behold there were a couple of healthy young plants under them. I cleaned up everything and got them all set up and they're actually looking good and strong. I sprayed with the Sevin spray and will see what they'll do. In the meantime I discovered worms in my cantaloupes and my watermelons are rotting on the vine (may be because of all the rain we had). Ugh. Sevin is my friend right now. The watermelon plants still look good and healthy so we'll see if they recover.
I've been eating a lot of egg plant and okra though. Plus some good peppers so I'm still happy :>)
I tried planting 4 jubilee watermelon seeds and 5 sugar baby melons seeds. The Jubilees busted open when they were growing from too much water. The melons were just getting going too. I did not get any of them. The sugar baby melons I got to eat 3. Was a bad year for melons.
Will try again next year.
Beans were a loss. Crows kept finding the seeds. They are some smart birds.
I grew some egg plant. found I was not fond of it. Not growing that again. I gave 90% of it away.
Sweetcorn did alright. 32 seeds and ended of with apx 25 ears of corns. Getting better at this. This year I planted them 1 ft apart by 2ft row.
Starting in august / sept going to plant again 1ft by 1ft to see how it does.
I tried planting 4 jubilee watermelon seeds and 5 sugar baby melons seeds. The Jubilees busted open when they were growing from too much water. The melons were just getting going too. I did not get any of them. The sugar baby melons I got to eat 3. Was a bad year for melons.
Will try again next year.Beans were a loss. Crows kept finding the seeds. They are some smart birds.
I grew some egg plant. found I was not fond of it. Not growing that again. I gave 90% of it .
I'm not a big eggplant fan either but I found the Japanese Ichaban ones are pretty good. They're long and slender kind of like the shape of a cucumber. If you slice them up and bread and fry them they're pretty tasty. We made a dipping sauce out of ranch dressing and creole seasoning.
I'm giving my cantaloupe and watermelon a little more time and if they don't start doing something I'm pulling them up.
Same with my onions. But the good news is that my peppers seem to have recovered from whatever it was that was making them drop leaves.
I learn something new every year!
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Sometimes gardening is a terrible waste of time but you never know if you don't try! A farmer either has to be a man with great faith or an awful brave gambler in my estimation. Our little piddley gardens don't compare to a man who plants hundreds of acres, invests thousands of dollars and several months of hard work in a crop. We had to plant our squash twice, no big deal, only 2 rows 100 feet long. 2nd planting did well, everybody in the neighborhood had all they wanted. Consider a man that maybe planted 80 acres of squash for the market and faced replanting. It ain't easy.
We planted 14 rows of the red corn we've been messin' with for several years and then it rained about 15 inches a few days after Easter. Didn't think it would come up, it was either sanded or washed away, but some of it came up, not a good stand but enough to make some more seed if it makes. Surprisingly, a week later some more of it came up, again not a good stand but still enough to give hope for a seed crop. Some was knee high, while some was only 3 or 4 inches, difficult to cultivate. I very carefully side dressed it with some 13-13-13 and left it alone. Quickly some of it got too high to get over with a tractor while some was only knee high, but now it is all extremely tall, still spotty but looks like it will make seed for next year. Weeds and grass were not controlled by cultivation or chemical so the crab grass is very healthy, but still the corn is growing. Too much rain at first, turned dry for a month, now summer showers are allowing it to probably mature. The lifted golf cart roof is a little over 6 feet high, some of the corn has grown another 3 or 4 feet (need to actually measure it). Some have 3 ears per stalk, some 2 and of course more with only 1 ear.
On the other side of the garden next to a row of Market More cukes, we planted 8 rows of Zipper Cream peas, good stand as they germinated, have kept cultivating them and have side dressed them one time with 8-8-8, no fertilizer at planting. They look great and will probably make a good crop of peas if we can get some young person to pick 'em on halves.
Peppers are doing great, Bell, Sweet Bananas, Rooster spur and a bush of Giant Jalapenos, all in raised beds.
Going to try a post a few pictures to support my ramblings.
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Haha, yeah I'm learning that. You really can't do much about the weather. I just like seeing what will grow good in this heat and humidity.
I pulled up my cantaloupe and watermelon today. Got tired of feeding the worms and other bugs. I had a few good starts on both but the melons rotted and the cantaloupes were full of worms. Looks like I had some type of mite in the melons causing rot. So I pulled everything.
I'm letting the dirt bake in the sun until it cools enough for a fall crop of something.
But my peppers still look good as well as the sweet potatoes, zucchini, okra and eggplant.
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