You should never water your garden during certain times
Are you getting our in your garden?(Image: Kinga Krzeminska via Getty Images)
A gardening expert has issued a clear warning about the best – and worst – times to water your garden. The much-loved gardening guru, Alan Titchmarsh, shared in an online video that the ideal times are early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
He explained: “The first thing to think about is what’s the best time of day to water. The answer is early in the morning or in the evening because then the water will go into action and evaoprate less rapidly than it would in a hot, noon-day sun.”
Urging people to use their “common sense” he also noted that you should avoid making a mistake which could lead to pointless watering. Alan, best known for BBC2’s Gardeners’ World and How To Be A Gardener – among many more shows – explained: “Don’t do your water according to the calendar” such as “regularly or every single day.”
The gardening expert shared his wisdom and it comes just in time for the hot weather(Image: Getty)
He said: “If it’s been pouring down, if it’s cool, the water will be lost from the soil much more slowly than on a hot, dry day. when with containers in particular on really hot summer days, you may be watering both morning and evening. Use your common sense, not the clock.”
In fact, “as a general rule of thumb, it’s good to make plants search out their own water supply, particularly in beds and borders, but you’ll notice the moment comes where they are starting to wilt, they are starting to be under stress, and that’s the time to act. Ideally, obviously, before that.”
But there is a way to tell that they need water before this. He urged people to not just look, but feel too. He shared: “If you look at a border and it looks dry on top, it may still be moist underneath. Get your trowel out, just dig down a couple of inches. If soil looks like a freshly rung out flannel and feels damp, it’s got enough water in it.”
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The garden expert also concluded by explaining that it’s best to water your plants directly at the base, near the roots, on top of the soil as this is where the water is truly needed. Avoid the common mistake of spraying the leaves with your hose, as this doesn’t benefit the plant as much, he said.
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