> I would have a few minor problems doing that. The garden is almost 200 feet from the nearest water tap. I suppose I could piece together 200 feet of leaky hose, but it would take awhile. That would only reach the lower corner and I would need 200 more to get to the far corner. Also, the garden is 150 X 50 feet and it would take all day to soak it down to a depth of three inches.


Wow, Howard, that sounds like a cool garden! Ours is about 20 by 30 feet and even that is big by some people's standards. It's been really dry here too, and the rain that came recently was SO wonderful. Everything's doing okay except the okra, which has pretty much given up. I'm a bit disappointed to have no okra this year since I never get to have it at school. My school is up north, so it shouldn't surprise me, I suppose, (yet it still does) that a lot of my friends don't know what okra is, or if they've had it they've only had it boiled.

We didn't plant corn this year since animals always seem to get it, but we did plant tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, and a few other things I'm forgetting (and of course the okra.. *sigh*). Besides the things you've said, what else do you have planted?

Ga"I hold the firm belief that okra was made specifically to be battered and fried. NOT boiled."halia