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Water Conservation in the Garden
To varying degrees, just like humans, plants need water. We've pulled together our top strategies for conserving water in every step of gardening, from planning to harvesting and beyond. Different kinds of gardens—urban, backyard, community, vegetable, windowsill herb—require different things when it comes to water. Explore our top articles below to find water conserving tips for your garden.
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Save Water in Your Garden: 5 Tips for Maximum Conservation
Blooming gardens and lush lawns are a joy in the summertime, but they can also be huge water hogs. While every garden is a bit different, depending on your local microclimate, the site of your garden, and your soil composition, among other things, these tips will help every gardener save thousands of gallons of water.
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Know When to Water Your Plants and How Much
While plants can certainly die of thirst, we can also send them to an early grave by overwatering them. Several minutes later, depending on the flow rate of your system, turn off the irrigation and dig down to the target depth.If your soil is saturated at this point, then this is the amount (or less) you'll need to...
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Water Your Container Garden Efficiently
Conserving water is important and even if your garden is in containers, water can easily be wasted. Here are tips on watering methods that will help you have the happiest plants while wasting little water.
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Conserve Water Before You Even Start Planting Your Garden for Spring
In my home state of South Carolina there is currently a lawsuit going on between North Carolina and South Carolina over water rights to the Catawba River. Droughts seem to no longer be a buzz word, but rather a way of life. Drowning the garden is no longer acceptable. So why am I talking about this now when it's frosty outside and your front lawn is brown? Because all the new rage in water conservation comes in the form of garden planning.
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Why You Should Water Your Hanging Plants with Ice Cubes
We all love houseplants. First of all, they look attractive, all leafy and green. Secondly, houseplants help us out by cleaning the air in our homes. In exchange, we try and help the plants live comfortably by taking really good care of them. (If you're like me, you probably have enough trouble keeping yourself alive, let alone a houseplant or two. I'm getting better with the plants.)
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How to Get Your Garden Through a Drought
If you're a greenie, a locavore, a green thumb or a money-saver, then you probably have a garden. You can grow a mad amount of vegetables in a backyard garden, using only a few feet of land. Growing food is so much cheaper than paying for it. In the cases where you can harvest seeds from your garden, you can grow food for free indefinitely.
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Save Water With Drip Irrigation
here are dozens of ways to save water in the garden. You can water plants in the morning, remove weeds, utilize mulch and compost and water near the base of plants. Another way to save water in the garden is with drip irrigation. According to the University of Rhode Island, drip irrigation is 90% efficient at getting water where it needs to go. Sprinklers are only 65%-75% efficient.
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How to Build Your Own Moisture Sensor and Conserve Water Now!
An outdoor moisture sensor is a device that you bury in the driest part of your yard. It sits there detecting moisture until the sprinkler system is turned on. If the sensor detects an acceptable amount of moisture, it tells the sprinkler system to shut off.
