Stop Believing These Watering Myths

Much of the common wisdom around watering is either untrue or incomplete. As it's one of the most essential parts of your garden's care, learn what myths you should stop believing!

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[niceyzuzu]

watering your plants deeply and infrequently trains the roots to grow deeper resulting in stronger root systems and making it harder for surface weeds to thrive

[strangecalibur]

I’m from Northern Ireland, it’s surprising when it’s not raining….

[chrisbridle]

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[harmonicaveronica]

I live in Minnesota so most of the rain we get, especially in summer, comes from short but intense storms. It's great when it happens! And I water mostly in the afternoon or evening because honestly, that's when I most often have time. I garden mostly in a community garden plot that's on my route to and from work, and if I stop by on my way in I often end up sweaty and with wet shoes, so that's another reason to wait until later in the day. I figure it's better to water at an inopportune time of day than to not water at all 🤷

[Ace-msco]

Please make more of these! My mum put me in charge of watering the garden and I want to do my best!

[GuySwords]

Watering in the evening should be the go to method in the hot summer months. This way the water has enough time to fully soak into the ground and doesn't get evaporated by the following hot temperatures of the morning.
Water is a prescious resource and it gets more scarce each day, we are lucky to be able to water our plants.

[trent]

Nice entry level garden! Hope to see you expand one day.

[hugosantosa]

Such wisdom in such a short video
Thanks bud

[DeathMetalDerf]

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[adamruff]

I had a little setup with just a few pepper plants and tomatoes and I would let the peppers stress as long as I could before watering them cuz I heard it really helps with the capsaicin factor. Idk if it helped hurt or didn’t matter much but I know I had some awesome peppers 😅

[texasman]

Good stuff as always my brotha thank you.

[Homeboyvick]

To add to myth #1 i was recently in a gardening school and one of our teachers told us that way back when there was no irrigation farmers used to run outside when it would rain and water the plants as, when it rained the water penetrated into the soil better… pretty interesting.

[Hashemaljarah]

My mom sent me this short video and told me to water the trees while it was raining, thank you😑

[rharesh]

Thanks for the post Sir, it's very handy and I'm learning something regarding plants. Medical student Malaysia God bless 👍🙏

[jlseagull.]

Our weather is hot and dry. My veggies and flowers always look thirsty. That makes it hard for me to determine “infrequently.” So…I do two layers; two containers and one on top of each other. I flood the top one with plants to let excessive water go down to the bottom one that has composting materials which are good for root development.

[tompatchak]

I work until late in the evening like 930 so as soon as I get home, I start watering all the containers. I have that are growing all my vegetables. I like to check to see if they need it first usually it’s the tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants that need the most and the peppers do just fine. I did set up an irrigation system for this year for my raise beds, but I have not gotten around to tweaking it to make sure it works correctly.

Actually, having the chore of having to separate, it makes me feel like I’m actually doing something instead of just putting stuff in dirt

[fuentesfalconessira]

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[nopenope]

My lavender loves to be soaked then left alone to just absorb sunshine. Grows into a massive bush that makes almost half the block fragrant

[priscillajimenez]

Yeah I heard watering or cutting grass around peaks of the day is the worst because the water will evaporate before it can settle in the ground and the grass is cut open and vulnerable. I heard it's best to do that kind of stuff in thr evening.