Survival 4 (No watering required)

Zed had been growing pumpkin plants without anyone knowing it. It was going to be a fall surprise for Marge and Penny. Zed and his daughter Penny had always carved a pumpkin each year for Halloween. It was one of those family traditions that seemed to be gone since the closing of all supermarkets. With a little blessing, however, thing were going to change for Zed's family. Changes that included large pumpkins for Halloween.

Unbeknownst to his family Zed had been growing secretly two large types of pumpkins from some seeds he had found. He had two plants. He was growing a  Howden and a Gold Rush. He now planned on growing them in the wild where his family would not see them. 

PLAN OF ATTACK

He found a large level spot in the grass field with direct sunlight. He dug a trench and lined it with a piece of water bed tubing that he had cut open.

The middle of the trench he made a little larger. He added two homemade small bales with  planting holes and placed them at each end of the trench. He also found garbage that he added to his spoiled hay bales when he made them. He used the garbage of paper towels, napkins, paper plates, and tissue paper. He added anything white but no dyed or printed paper. The garbage paper products had to readily absorb moisture. 

He made the bales in a wooden box with a planting hole in the middle of each bale. He tied the bale with twine and made sure it was not going to fall apart. He then made a water trap like they do for survival in the middle of his two hay/paper bales. It looked funny but it just might work.

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Before he added the two sheets of plastic on the top he also placed cut up vegetation in the trench to help create moisture under the plastic enclosure. On the first sheet of plastic he placed a small rock on top of the plastic in the middle to create a funnel for moisture to drip back down. The moisture would run on top of the bottom water bed tubing and saturate the two hay/paper bales. 

Zed hurried back to his survival shelter before his family could miss him. 

"What was you up to? asked Martha. 

"Not much. I was just testing out some theories on how we might be able to grow more food with less water."

"Sounds interesting. Will your theory work?"

"Only time will tell," replied Zed. "Only time will tell."