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I'm making plans for next year and I could use some good advice.
I have a small yard in New Orleans where I'm a first time gardener. We're a half block from the street car line so we get a ton of foot traffic past our house. We've had plants taken off of our front porch before, so I'm afraid to grow fruits and veggies in my yard. We have a nice sized balcony that wraps around the second floor of our house and I grew flowers and herbs up there the first year we were in the house, but the watering got to be too much of a chore (drought that year) so I gave it up. I'd like to try it again with some tomatoes, strawberries and maybe even a watermelon. I bought a drip irrigation kit that I plan to run up on the porch columns to the balcony so that I don't have to hand water so much. The balcony gets at least 8 hours of sun in the summer.
My husband's skeptical but he's used to my kooky ideas so he'll help me anyway :-) What do you think? Can this work?
Mary Ann
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