Well, this is my little garden. Our cukes are doing spectacularly because we are watering them every other day with soaker hoses. The plants are huge. If they don't get watered that often, they just wilt and look like they are dying. I think it's because the plant can't get water out the long vines to the leaves. I've never seen a plant wilt down so quickly during the heat of the day as they do when not watered on time. Because we water them and have kept them free of bugs, we get 15 to 20 pounds of cukes off of them every 2 or 3 days. If we don't pick often the cukes look more like zucchinis. I picked one last tuesday that we didn't see. It was a foot long and 3" diameter.:laughing:
Now, my tomato plants really difficult to water the correct amount because they wilt down some, but if overwatered just a bit, the tomatoes will split from too much water and the plants get yellow leaves at the bottom. I'm trying to just overwater a bit to be on the safe side. In the excess heat, the tomatoes are not setting many fruit, but they are producing nicely. The early girls have nice baseball sized fruit that is perfectly formed. Some of the other varieties get a bit cat-faced with the overwatering. My sweet peppers, banana peppers, and pimentos are doing just fine in the heat and seem to do well. I'm sure I'm overwatering them, but the plants are just covered with peppers.
