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Originally Posted by trularin
Warren, good to hear you got your garden in. Keep everything watered and you should do great. Here is a trick: Take 50% of volume of a 5 gallon buck of compost and put it in the bucket. Then mix 50% distilled water into the same bucket and get the compost to sink in the water. Do this in the morning. Set out in direct sunlight for the entire day.
About 7 or 8 at night, strain the water off and sprinkle the water on your garden.
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Compost tea! Its a lot easier to wrap up some compost in a old rag (pillow case is good or torn sheet) and let it sit in bucket. Stir every so often.
I've never heard of using distilled water rather than tap water. Also, I never water my plants or veggies at night. Everyone always says that if they do not dry out, it can promote fungal growth.
I sometime use the packaged tomato food (Scott's I think) about once or twice a month. Then at the end of the season, I sprinkle some Epsom salts around the plants and water it in to promote more tomatoes in the fall.
Last years crop of cukes was terrible. The year before that I made tons of bread & butter pickles. Any tips for cucumbers?