Also ... there's an interesting product called Soil Moist
http://www.soilmoist.com/ that you can put in containers to reduce the
watering need. Not good for root vegetables but would seem to be good in
general.

"Fleemo" wrote in message
om...
I've got my raised beds on automated drip lines, so I'll try running a
line from that over to the half barrels, see if that works. Be a lot
of work diggin' up the lines and patching into 'em, but it'll be worth
the effort in the long run.

Thanks for the input here folks.