Do you know the three essentials of gardening?
- Water
- Ample amount of sunlight
- Fertilised Soil
Apart from this, they need your care and devotion. If you fail to care for your plants, you will soon witness your flowerbeds wilting away.
Now nature gives you a hand in maintaining the sunlight and the soil to meet the plant’s requirements. This leaves you with the sole responsibility of watering the garden.
You think it’s simple, right? Wrong!
Watering may look easy: a little sprinkle of water each day and you are off.
However, unknown to you, when you have your back to the beds, the water is either seeping in and creating chaos or drying up in the heat.
Both these scenarios are a recipe for disaster.
This is why it is crucial that you get the watering routine right!
Here are a few tips to help you get started:
1. Get the Timing Right
Your watering schedule must follow the sun. The two optimum timings to water your garden are the after dawn and before dusk. This is because the temperatures and the atmosphere give you their blessing by helping your watering session.
2. Leaves are off limits!
You’d think that the luscious green leaves are the best targets for your hose. Surprisingly, that is not the case. In fact, wet leaves are an invitation to many plant diseases. The bacteria and fungus, the weird leafy problems they all thrive in wet humid conditions.
So aim the hose elsewhere!
3. The Root of Plant’s Happiness
If not the leaves, then where do you water the plants?
In the soil of course! The rich soil absorbs the water and then the root beneath it drinks it up. Think of the root as the straw that sucks the water and transports it to the rest of the plant’s parts.
4. Beware of the Pool
Watering the soil does not mean you create a pool of water that surrounds the plant. This will only create a bigger muddy mess called waterlogging. Without going into details we’d just say that this is very detrimental to the plant’s growth and nutrition.
Try keeping up with these four rules to keep the plants from drying on you!
Need a little help?
Little Fields Farm is every gardener’s haven. Lucky for you, they have a large supply of hoses and sprinklers that fulfil your irrigation needs. The shop has everything else you need to help your plants flourish and thrive.
