Should I be doing anything else? vegetables in a bucket question (pics)

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Your climate,heat index is what matters.

Where I live, I have to start plants in light shade, they will turn into crispy critters otherwise, and often they need light watering mornings and early evenings. Southern gardening and all that with a heat index today of 111.
Seedlings tend to rot ( it's called dampening off) if too wet.
I personally like to inspect my plants daily to see what they need as opposed to automatic systems, untl they are healthy and grown up, then automatic is fine.

So find out if your plants tend to get drier over night or by day's end, that will tell you when to water.
Most people tend to overwater young plants and underwater bigger plants.

A milk spray of 9 parts water to 1 part milk will prevent mildew and mold on plants, that I know for sure.
And a spray of baking soda, water and dash of soap ( NOT detergent) will prevent early and late blight on tomatoes.
Got to do that every 4-5 days tho for a few weeks.