I've got strawberries out, garlic, lettuce, squash out. I ordered tomatoes that should be here next week. Peppers, cucumbers the next week.

Well, crapola....went out to set up my drip hose system throughout my raised beds this afternoon and hit a problem.


These two pieces for the quick-connect and faucet adapter would NOT connect. Hubby and I tried for an hour to get it to connect and nadda. Mind you I am fairly engineering savvy and this is not the first drip hose system I have installed, so it was frustrating. We finally called Gardener's Supply Company, where I ordered two of these systems to talk to the experts.

First I got some young buck that talked to me like I was a blathering idiot, so I politely told him thanks and hung up. I then called back and spoke to Janet, a female. She tried to tell me the same things...you screw this part to the faucet, you attach the other part to the hose you got in the kit and then you just snap them together.

When I responded to her in almost the same sing song voice giving the same spill except I ended with and then it just snaps together... in theory. In all actuality there is no couple, no snap. She laughed. She actually went to get the two parts to see if she had any problems and voila she had none and said it was working just like it should.

After that, she offered to send me two [actually 4] more parts. I told her to send me the one she had put together so I would be sure it worked!

My only observation was the connector I received was black, not green. Only thought is I possibly got sent the wrong connector.

Anyway, after an aggravating hour or so, the company, or rather Janet, did offer to make things right and that was greatly appreciated. We will see when the other parts arrive if they work...

I'm through bitchin' now. Just glad they offered to make it right.

Planted today. Cucumbers, okra, Swiss chard, Arugula, beers, corn, and squash. Plan to put started peppers and tomatoes in the ground this week along with getting the herb Garden planted.

just remember you WILL have to water those bucket plants every day, twice a day later on.

Well, I have grown corn once or twice and it has been a long while since I did. I planted some glass corn {Indian Corn} and was hopeful about my endeavor but it is looking mighty suspect.

I had always heard if your corn was not jointed it could take a light frost but I am beginning to thing those two cold nights might have taken a toll.

I have lost three or four sprouts and several others are looking rather sickly....any advice or should I scrap this? It was truly a lark to try and grow something different and I won't languish over it but if it is bound to fail, I want to take it out and put something else in that spot.

Thoughts?