Ideas on how to keep tomato and cucumber plants watered while on vacation...?

I have some tomato and cucumber plants in pots that are doing very well. We will be going on vacation for 8 days and wonder how to keep them watered. We live in southeast GA and it has been very hot and dry. I have had to water the plants twice a day so far. Any suggestions? Thanks

Ideas on how to keep tomato and cucumber plants watered while on vacation...?
There is a kit you can get at Walmart that has a hard hose and a long soft tube hose that is much more narrow and some


clips and such. I believe you attach the hard one to your own hose somehow then attach the softer tube after you cut it to size onto it. The soft tube goes into your pot. You can do this many times. I'd get a timer and test it out to see how long it should run in the pots. Thats what I'm doing when I go on vacation.
Reply:Hire a neighbor to come and water.
Reply:Try planting them inside a tire and giving it a pretty good water. the tire will hold excess water that the pland does not need. As the plant needs water it will have a supply stored inside the tire. I heard that somewhere, not sure if it works though.
Reply:Ask a neighbor to do it.
Reply:If you have a timed sprinkler system that comes on everyday at a certain time. You can get them at Home Depot
Reply:Slightly Ghetto but it gets the job done while away:





1. Get a 2-Liter bottle and thoroughly clean it. Punch a small hole in the cap about the size of penny nail. Fill the bottle with water then screw the cap on tightly.





2. Thoroughly water your plants. Almost saturate them.





3. Invert the bottle pushing the cap and nozzle of the bottle into dirt. The water will slowly release into the soil over several days.
Reply:If you want you can go down to a hardware store with a nursery or plant section and buy what is called polymer's, some times referred to as dry water.





These polymer's absorb quite a few times their weight in water and then sloe release it as the plant drys out. It would be necessary to add the polymeres to the soil by mixing them in a bit, but 8 days is a long time with out human intervention, and it may help them survive until you get back home.





You can purchase the ploymer's on ebay also here is a link.





http://www.water-keep.com/?gclid=CLGywY2...





http://www.driwater.com/site.html





http://www.theartisticshop.com/water%20p...





ebay link





http://home.search.ebay.com/polymers_Hom...








Hope this helps





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Reply:ask a neighbor, friend, cousin, ect. i went on vacation for 5 days last summer and my tomato survived but my sunflower died=(!!! well i hope i helped