Ollas!!!!
I am so excited! I am finally realizing one of my long-time projects. I may have mentioned that at one time I grew 100+ tomato and pepper plants. I grew every heirloom tomato I could get my hands on, mostly to see which ones I liked. I grew many different kinds of peppers, including my beloved chiltepin. In addition, I grew potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, radishes, etc, etc; the list goes on and on. That summer, I became a slave to my small produce farm because you see, in August, when the sun in Kansas burns all your hopes and dreams and temperatures hover above 100F, you can almost hear, almost, if you listen carefully, all your plants begging for water. "Water! Please!" they implore; and you must oblige, lest all that work you did in the spring is for nothing. Now, I have seen people grow thousands of plants. Yes, they grow these many plants in carefully planned operations in covered structures with automated watering systems. These people spend a lot of money and...