That's a tough one...I'd say about an hour a day...Tomato plants, if actively growing fruit take about 1 inch of water per week...Squash is the same...Corn is the only one that can take a little less...I'd go with an hour and adjust accordingly...

Ok. That's where I will start.

Funny thing is, my smallest tomatoe plants have the largest fruit, albeit only 1 per plant. And I'm not joking either. These are better boy plants that are no more than 10" tall. The fruit is big enough to fill the palm of my hand.

I know alot of it has to do with my soil. It is very high clay content and turns into concrete quickly after a heavy rain.

I'd do it very late at night or very early in the morning so that the plants have ample time to absorb the moisture...

AdventureTX,
I lived on a farm of which the south border was a river. My grandad would have me go down by the river where there were a lot of wild mulberry trees and pick all I could in the spring. Didn't gripe because I could eat as many as I wanted. With the rest my grandma made fabulous rhubarb-mulberry cobbler and my grandad would keep enought to make a batch of mulberry wine.

Thought I've been watering "just" acorn squash but found these mixed in.....pumpkins?

They sure do look like a pumpkin, but I believe that is Spaghetti Squash...

By the way, Spaghetti Squash is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD eatin'...Just don't pick it before it's ready...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_squash

Could be? Several friends bring me compost and I've got different kinds of squash everywhere and threatening to take over.

It's odd, the one in the first pic looks more like a Spaghetti Squash...However, the second one looks like a pumpkin...Are they on the same plant? Spaghetti Squash plants put off a similar odor to that of yellow squash, but a bit nuttier, sort of like Zucchini...

They're growing down the alley over the fence and spreading to all four corners of the garden...





and I didn't plant any of them.

LOL...I've had that happen before...It's great, isn't it...Squash and pumpkins have similar plants and Spaghetti Squash is usually more oblong than round...It's a tough call...

My largest harvest thus far...



15 Zucchini Squash, 6 Yellow Squash, 1 Early Girl Tomato, 8 Sugary Grape Tomatoes (2 weren't ripe, but they came off when I pulled the others), 9 Sweet Banana Peppers, 4 Cayenne Peppers, 5 Anaheim Chili Peppers, and 5 Cubanelle Peppers.

My very first harvest of 2010 (I put my garden in way too late due to torrential rain). Is this safe to eat and what caused it?

What caused what the blackish/brownish/purple color or the utensil laying across the stem...? I'd say manmade global warming caused the utensil to try and have it's way with the stem...

I'm not sure what causes the discoloration...We have it on occasion and it's never been a problem...Eat away, just stop when you get to the utensil or else you'll have to buy new teeth...

Good job...

Lonestar

Here's another odd one I found....looks like a giant zucchini?



Tomatoes are going crazy too!





These are 2 of 20 plants with fruits all over them!!!