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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I need to install drip. I keep saying im going to do it. 😊
Your favorite home improvement store should make this a training video for waterers. I know whereof I speak. 😔
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.
I really like this new channel!
Thanks for the advice 😊
Awesome!
GREAT VIDEO.THANK YOU.SHORT AND TO THE POINT..
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!
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! 🥰
We got three inches of rain today. It's going on evening and still raining. Are my plants in trouble? How can you prevent rainfall from spreading disease (besides mulching, which I always do)?
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.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. Mother Nature has been watering plants from above long before drip irrigation was invented, and they did just fine. If you want to show that drip is better, you need to compare similarly situated plants that differ only by means of additional irrigation. I suspect — and there's published studies to support this — that you'll find little benefit, in terms of disease incidence and severity, from drip irrigation. You might use less water, but not enough to matter for the average home gardener.
I do it the wrong way… of course… any advice for an infestation of whiteflies? I had a bottle of insecticide which said whiteflies on the label… soaked my plants pretty good yesterday… today they looked better but still some definite bad spots… Bob Villa said soapy water, so today I tried soapy water… I hope you agree…
Waiting on my money tree to flourish so I can afford drip irrigation. LOL
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.
It rains from above and I water from above… and I've never had a problem.
Thank you 🙏
How about in hot and dry area?
I did the drip irrigation and was the worst money I ever spent, uneven watering at it's best, sorry, it didn't work for me, at lot of bottom end rot due to uneven watering, also rains happenes at any time of the day, and it won't kill your plants if you water them at anytime. just my 2 cents. thanks for the video!!
Thanks man
This dude is an absolute Chad.
I had terrible results with drip. Then I got rid of the big box store crap and made my own with PVC pipe and drilled holes. That actually worked pretty good. Then I got a decent drip system from a reputable dealer. It's been working great so far. The initial setup time was well worth it. I've also watered by hand (we don't get much rain here) and my garden was pathetic. The consistent drip and timer watering I have now makes a huge difference. I've tried overhead watering too. It's so dry here that I can literally see some of the water vapor go up and evaporate to nothing. I'd rather have the water go into the ground.
Thanks Bro.
Drip irrigation Please… I want more.
I know I told you I bought from drip depot using your link, but I only bought enough to test it out. I just did a second order to do the rest of my garden (used your link again). I can't say enough good things about the quality to cost ratio. Plus, they have a video for almost every single part they sell. I'm so glad to have given it a try. I highly recommend others give it a shot too.
This is my first year using the 5/8 drip tape, it has 12" spacing and is working great under my mulch.
Drip is good and also I let the hose run at the end of the trenches where the plants lay to the sides of…also I water from above in full dirt to cool off plants when they need it…… didn't get any problems because I feed my plants liquid kelp fertilizer and that really feed them and kept them in prime condition because of the mineral content…… healthy plants are fed plants and fed plants are healthy plants.
I wish I could do drip irrigatlion, but all of my garden plants are in independent pots. I do my best to water as low to the dirt as possible and prune the lowest branches.
Pathogens exist is all soils no matter what. However if ur plant is stressed for several reasons its defenses get weaker and weaker to the point that the plant will get infected buy it. If u have a diversity group of microbes in ur soil ( organic matter ) then those microbes will control the population of disease pathogens .
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.
Yep
Great tip! Thank you MG😊👍
how do you keep your black weed fabric so clean?
I constantly rinse the undersides of the plant/tree to get off any pests and it works just fine with no disease
This year I just started Mulching and finding the results outstanding and my only question right now is can i still get soil bound disease's from splash up to bottom leaves?
I have a bunch of pvc I was going to use for a different project that never came to fruition and Ive already purchased a timer.
What hardware would I need to connect the rubber looking lines you have here in this video from each plant to regular pvc?
It already takes me 3 hours to water, not counting my grapes and raised beds🙀 can't afford drip or soaker hoses but I'm using ice tea bottles with a hole drilled to slowly water other raised beds.