If you water your garden right, you can save water and money and make plants healthier.
Until I installed soaker hoses throughout my vegetable beds this year, I'd always watered my plants by hand, which over the years had become tiresome.
How you water is just as important as when. Giving plants a quick, daily sprinkle offers little if any benefit to roots, which, depending on the plant, could extend a foot or more into the soil. Instead, water less frequently but deeply. Redirect a downspout to fill a rain barrel, then use the captured water to fill watering cans. Or use an adapter to attach a garden or soaker hose to the spigot hole at the bottom of the barrel.Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio When planting a garden, we typically give thought to what looks good with what and each plant's sunlight requirements.
HOLD IN MOISTURE WITH MULCH, COMPOST, EVEN A DIAPERWhen planting in the garden, incorporate a generous amount of compost into holes to increase the water-holding capacity of sandy soil and improve drainage in clay. You can even tear open a baby diaper and mix the absorbent hydrogels with your potting mix, or simply place an unfolded diaper at the bottom of a container to absorb and hold moisture. Just don't use any of these if your container includes succulents or other plants that require dry, well-draining soil.
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