Your parents are right Mark. I jokingly told my wife that I could put a frozen 3 lb. chub of hamburger meat outside and it would not only thaw, but it would cook. We could have meatloaf for dinner
(It's not "That" hot.) but it is Mid-July hot here which has always meant the end of the spring/early summer tomato growing season. I will go more into that in my next post because it is a separate question.
I have learned - do whatever you have to.
Neither you or Worth mentioned a word about how much I am watering at a time. So, I'm guessing a gallon at a time is okay. I wasn't sure if it was too much or too little for a 5 gallon bucket?
Most 5 gallon buckets actually holds 6 gallons when filled full. Metric equivalents: 5 Gallons = 18.9271 liters. 6 gallons = 22.7125 liters.