So, it's almost 1:00 p.m. and the sun has been going in and out, but right during
this time, the entire collection of plants on the driveway
is in Sun. And you can see a little bit of shadow on the pavement, but even
though it's not hot out here, the pumpkin leaves are so huge that in order to
conserve moisture for the vine, they wilt in Sun of the daytime. And I'll show you
later this afternoon how they perk back up. Now just because you see this on your
squash does not mean it needs to be watered, because I watered this about two
three days ago. But just to be sure, you can take your inexpensive moisture meter
and check.
It's really hard to check moisture when you have wood chips. You've got to go down
a ways. Okay, it's not wet, but it is not dry. Now let's check the other side,
because the vine is actually growing out of this one. Ooh, maybe it does need water.
Hmm, I might stand corrected here.
Well, it was on the top side of 1 as opposed to the pepper, which is not exactly
wet either. Maybe I should just water everything again.
Now, that's wet. Peppers don't like to be watered until the soil is dry, just like
tomatoes. Deep, but infrequent, is the way you
should water Tomatoes. Okay, I'm gonna give this some water. By the way, this is
a little tip that I've learned for myself and that is I have a chlorine
filter on my hose, which I bring over from around the corner and I keep this
filled up to the top, and then when I need a quick watering, I just dip and go.
So, I call this my dip and go. I have one on the other side of the house and one
on this side of the house.
There's nothing actually growing in that pot I'm just using it for support right
now. It's a big planter, so I'm gonna put a couple of gallons of water.
Unfortunately, most of it leaks right out because of the way it was built.
Now, these leaves looked absolutely incredible a week ago, the sweet potato
leaves, and I should have picked them to eat them last week, and I didn't get
around to it.That's kind of my often used expression: I didn't get around to it.
Okay, all right, I'm just gonna pick off this one leaf which is not doing the
plant any good, and we're gonna see how these perk up in the next 20 minutes, if
they perk up. And I think I'll just give these a little drink too because they're
growing so fast. and all these are gonna be potted up on
Thursday.
Well. at least 25 will, because I ordered 25 3-gallon cloth pots.
And I want to get some water on this vine over here. This is the vine with all
the male flowers, and I have another vine coming out of this pot, too. Just this
little, just this little one right here is coming out of this pot with the
apricot branches.
So, I grew a lot of squash and pumpkins back here last summer and I don't think
I produced anything. I had some tall vines but no vegetables to speak of.
Because more of the Sun is up here, so I'm glad we put this volunteer squash up
here. Let's see if there anything looks like, well, just this one, but I don't know,
that could turn yellow tomorrow and be done.
Oh, this tomato went up there, oh, okay. I should probably move that out but
that's a heavy pot, so I'll probably wait until Thursday.
I'm just going to keep taking these leaves that are showing signs of blight
or mildew off early, and hope that the soluble mycorrhizae that I used last
week catches up to the plants and helps them ward off disease. Come on now all
you tomato plants, I need some Tomatoes, okay? And you know I love you. all of you.
These leaves look fantastic and I really should eat them and not
worry about the potato. I'm going to move this squash that we planted when Patti
was here, that she gave me, pull it up so it gets a little bit more hours of Sun
per day. It's ready to take off. Okay, this is your 1:30 p.m. light on my driveway
garden wall. Now you see this female is closed up
and this female's still open. I've got a few male blooms still open
but I don't see any bee activity back here at the moment. But these males are
coming off the other vine, so if they're a different variety, it will cross. Who
knows what I'll wind up with?