A couple of times I have had to be out of town for a few days to a couple of weeks when I still had seedlings in small pots and had to depend on someone else to water them. The biggest thing to remember is, they are just plants! Always lose some, but I do even with me taking car of them every day. It's the surprises that keep you going!
Jennifer's DH works for a produce co. and got her all the crates to put her jugs in. She doesn't normally have on a shelf, that was to get them off the ground temporarily since they had so much snow and ice, they were frozen to the ground.