Andy asks
This year I am planting my tomatoes and cucumbers (North Texas) In little plastic wells so I can more selectively apply water during our drought... What I am doing is to cut the bottoms out of the plastic buckets of about 6-8 inches diameter and put them in the ground, filling them with good dirt and leaving about 2 inches vacant between the top of the soil inside them and the rims.... The top of the soil in the plastic bucket is about even with the outside soil, so the "rim" is about 2 inches above the terrain.
In this way I can water the "well" with about 2 inches, which will soak down into the root area... I am also surrounding the outside of the plastic well with about
2 inches of leaf mulch...Has anyone else tried this and did you have positive results ?
Andy in Eureka, Texas