Thanks for your quick response, Hal. I will get to work on this tomorrow,
unless someone else chimes in with a first hand experience that contradicts
it.
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:52:58 -0700, "gregpresley"
wrote:

Could someone please describe to me this method again? It has been
described
on this newsgroup before, but I want to try to do it this year to see if
I
can fend off blossom end rot by keeping the plants evenly moist. I have
been
saving several of the large gallon sized plastic water bottles. I think
what
I remember is that some tiny holes are pricked in the bottom of the jugs,
and then they are filled every other day or something. Is that correct?
Also, should the jugs, which have small lips, be capped or left open?
Thanks.


I never did it myself, but my uncle always watered his tomatoes that
way. He simply put one pin sized hole in one bottom corner of the
milk jug and buried the jug up to the neck. He then filled the jug up
and said it lasted all day and he filled it daily. You would need to
leave the top open or put an airhole in the top otherwise the vacuum
would keep the water from dripping out.

Hal
Thoughts on this:
1. In a really hot climate, the water evaporates as fast as it drips out.
2. Tomatoes seem to benefit more from a deep watering that promotes deep roots.
This provides mostly surface water and shallow roots.
3. If you're going out to the tomato plants to fill the plastic bottles, why
not just water the tomatoes while you're there instead of filling bottles?

Emilie
NorCal (hot)