In the melon patch we added watering tubes. They are 6" pvc tubing/pipe cut into 14" long pieces with holes either drilled in one side or three sides. The ones with holes on one side are for the melons and the ones with hole drilled on three sides are for the cucumbers. The melons and Cantaloupes are one plant per hillock and the Cucumbers are three plants per hillock. They allow for nearly direct watering of the roots without eroding the hillocks they are on.
The rest of the garden is doing really well.
The grapes are Red Caco on the right and Concord Blue on the left (I took pictures of the labels but they didn't come out...blurry). I'm surprised they're still alive. I read the instructions to them and they did it their way anyway. It said not to put the seedlings in fertilized potting soil....they put them in fertilized potting soil
So, I'll be quite surprised if they bear fruit at all this season....maybe next
Then we put up a tomato arbor made of four 16' wire fence panels with paper feed sacks lining the bottom for weed control...
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That should hold them up nicely for the rest of the season.
Then, we've added some Sweet Banana peppers, Brussels Sprouts and some more tomatoes (Early Girls) in the last row (far right--not in pictures yet....we planted them after I took these pictures).
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WHAB
