watering

[gardengirl]

Water is the best gift you can give your garden and you need to give it about an inch per week. Water is vital to distributing nutrients to your plants. Sometimes, rain is all you need. But if you're faced with a dry season, you'll have to manually water.

Watering veggies isn't nearly as fussy as watering flowers. But there are a few things to keep in mind. Water early in the day. This allows the plants and the top layer of soil to dry. This will also help with fungal problems.

Drip irrigation works quite well. Drip irrigation is great in dry climates. It gives a consistent amount of moisture. It gives a slow watering right at the plant. You can even pump nitrogen and organic fertilizers through these systems. There can be some problems with this system. For example, the holes in the tubing can get clogged up.

[fleurdelys]

I've been seeing a lot of posts about drip irrigation here, and it seems like a really feasible means of watering your garden, especially if you'll be going out of town. As you mentioned, you can also use it to distribute the nutrients to your plants.

[fireflies]

First thing to do when you think about building a drip irrigation is to figure out how much water is available for you to use in your system. Get a 5 gallon bucket run under a faucet full speed and time it in a minute. And see how much water you get in the bucket in a minute. Multiply by 60 and that’s how much water is available to you per hour. When you see GPH (gallons per hour) written on the packaging of your drip system parts, you’ll be able to know how much water it can carry on so you’ll know how many things you can put on your drip system.. From your kit get the pressure reducer and simply screw it on your faucet. Get the adaptor ( to the tubing )and screw it on the pressure reducer. Get your main tubing and push right into the adaptor. Punch a hole and insert the drip meter. Connect your distribution tubing to the drip meter and place the end of the tubing at the center of your pot and your done.

[leeza09]

After reading this post i really think i too should start drip irrigation for my garden, it is very simple too.