that ambitious. I have a drip irrigation system using a timer on the faucet. Works great and plants have finally stopped dying. Amazing what regular watering can accomplish.

Water is the key, my summer garden is plastic 55 gallon drums cut in half mounted in stands. Our yard is mostly steep hill and rocks so container gardening works well, the drums retain enough water for several days.

but you can't do both.

i still have some hope that i can get a nice greenhouse for my farm. w the cold springs we have been having, i really need to lengthen my season.
i'm not very good at that. but this year i am doing everything i can to get a good cold weather crop in this year. have several nice kales, lettuces, and spuds going.
i have a little polycarb lean to on my house, so those things can be out there early, and producing well by june. i hope.

spuds would do well for you. start them now, while it is cold. i do them in my chicken feed bags. they love a cold start, and home grown spuds are almost as good as homegrown tomatoes.

We usually have them growing in the compost pile they are good, I have had so so success growing in containers this year I am making portable fenced areas about the size of the greenhouse to expand some crops everything has to be fenced the deer are everywhere.

some crops they dont bother, but any peas or beans are gone in nothing flat.
have a plan this year to start both in small pots, and put them in a pop bottle to make a collar so they at least cant get them at the root.

the nice thing about spuds in a bag is no digging to harvest, just dump. and dont miss any.

My main garden has a electric fence around the bottom perimeter, the first year we had the garden everything was going well with just the deer fence until one weekend we were gone, when we got back all my kale and lettuce were mowed to the dirt with random bites on the tomatoes and cukes.

It was woodchucks, I put electric fence around the base and have not had a problem since.

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tho i will be deploying a lot more chicken wire this year. but i am spread over 4 city lots, so i just have to take evasive actions. part 1- figuring out which things they like and dont. part 2- protecting the faves comes now.

i dont know why it never occurred to me to cut my barrels that way. i have a bunch, and cut them either in half or 1/3-2/3. but i can think of a lot of ways that would work too.

well, good luck this summer.