This Common Watering Mistake Is DESTROYING Your Garden!

In today's 2 minute garden tip, I share a common watering mistake that may be destroying your garden! There are many ways to water a garden, but all are not created equal. Some garden watering methods can cause problems, especially during the summer, because they can spread garden diseases that can kill your disease susceptible plants. Do not make this mistake watering your garden!

This video discusses the different ways of watering gardens. I specifically discuss overhead watering and why it can be a problem in warm weather. Other alternative watering methods are targeted watering and drip irrigation methods.

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[MinuteGardenTips]

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[wingabouts]

My garden absolutely loves a good rain! Everything brightens up and blooms and fruits just seem to go into overdrive. My garden sure doesn't mind one bit that the rain came from above.

[SmashPhysical]

Drip irrigation is the way to go. Not only is it better for the plants and saves water, but it also saves a lot of effort! As a lazy gardener I cannot recommend this enough!

[MikeKonczal-cqpu]

I had a couple of old/damaged garden hoses lying around, so I plugged the end and rolled it out under my plants. Then I used a 1/16th drill bit to make weeper holes exactly where needed them. Cheap and easy.

[weareinflames]

I love this channel just as much or more as the main channel. Hope you all give the traffic boost for the man here with a thumbs up/like.

[Globally]

THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION... CAUSE I'D NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF MAYBE SPREADING A DESEASE OVER THE GARDEN!!! THANK YOU!!!🌳😃👍🏾🙋🏾🔥🙏🏽👑➕📖🔥

[Soviless]

subscribed to your second channel. you have taught me so much as an inexperienced veggie grower, thank you so much!

[kittyfruitloop]

Awesome, and hurray!!!! I finally installed soaker hoses in the garden this year, (it's pretty easy actually) What a game changer! I turn it on, set a timer and then go do something else for an hour. My pruned tomatoes already look much happier. It doesn't look like they're getting a ton of water but the ground is nice and moist but not muddy. I'm using the weed barrier fabric you gave an Amazon link to. ALSO a game changer and a time saver. THANK YOU!

[myurbangarden]

I am a fan of soaker hoses. The watering restrictions here in Texas forced many of us to get creative watering. Soaker hoses are pretty simple and cheap, drip irrigation is the NEXT VENTURE.

[JennySimon]

Thanks so much. I got a chip drop of a cedar tree. I thought I couldn't use it to mulch the veggies but turns out it's fine and anti-pest. Thanks so much. I'm also gonna install drip irrigation when I'm done setting up this garden. I just moved. I haven't had time really to set it all up. I've had to do some major landscaping to prep it

[reneejmj]

Off topic: Previously my fig wasn't coming out of dormancy. Top half was dead. Your advice to trim off the dead part worked. The buds are starting to swell. Thank you! 🥰

[southsidecarly]

Thanks for sharing the video! Have a great day!🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼

[SistaChic]

Great tips! The other mistake many make (especially when watering lawns) is to water at night. Plants use their stoma (stomate) to take in water and stoma close at night. They only open to take in water during the daytime. So, it does no good to water at night forcing plants to sit in waterlogged soil. A recipe for disaster! Many do this because they think that watering when it's cooler allows the plants to absorb more water because they don't have to compete with the sun. Wrong! Water in the daytime, people.

[jeanking]

Can you give us approximate length of time to run the water on drip lines. How much water do the plants need and how often.

[timdrahman]

Before I installed drip irrigation this Spring, l calculated that it would save something like 93% of the water. Not only does it save more than expected, our garden has really taken off, at least with some crops.

[PeteCorp]

Glad my overhead watering comment could inspire another video. 😂. Can you do a video on blossom end rot? I know you say it's due to irregular watering but my tomatoes are grown hydroponically. They're literally swimming water all the time and still can get blossom end rot if I don't give enough calcium. I do the trick of dissolving calcium tablets from human supplements into water and then giving it to the tomatoes.

[johnb]

You do it your way i will do it my way

[oldgold]

Interesting. I had never really thought of this as an issue, but then i do a lot of my watering by cutting downpipe into 2 ft lengths and burying a foot of it underground by the plant and watering into them. Sabpves a lot of evaporation. Also key is having a not too high planting density.

[thomasgargano]

Thank you this video…I was wondering why my plants under leaves were turning yellow, so the disease lives in the ground? I’ll be sure not to splash the underside of my plants, thank you again…👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻☮️

[elwood]

🇦🇺Here in Qld Australia I just water the wood chips around the plant w my watering can about once every 4-6 weeks. They don’t need more than that if the soil is moist when they first go in. I soak my chips in some diluted seasol and I never get disease. I do however have electroculture arials everywhere.