You can set the drippers or emitters on your drip irrigation tape at different intervals based on how far apart your crops are spaced. To try simple trench irrigation, use a hoe to form trenches ...

If you’ve grown a garden for a while, you may have noticed that the last few years have been brutal due to climate change-related patterns. One month it’s drought and the next it’s flooding. What is ...

RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a ...

I do not like drip systems, especially those placed underneath landscape fabric or a layer of mulch. You can’t see what is happening and you will lose plants before you discover you have a problem. I ...

The gardener who can do a thorough job of watering with hose in hand is rare indeed. Assuming that the hose spews out about 3 gallons per minute in a circle about 4 feet in diameter, I roughly ...

Implementing drip irrigation in a garden or landscape is also a way to streamline watering your plants. With new irrigation controllers that can be set and operated from your phone, you can water your ...

August is the month for two garden W’s: weeding and watering. Regular attention to both keeps a vegetable or flower garden pretty and productive well into autumn. For now, let’s look at watering. It’s ...

WHETHER you’re the type of plant parent who constantly forgets to water your shrubs, or someone who stresses about finding a plant-sitter while you’re away, this hack is for you. Using a few items you ...

If you’re like me, you, too, are lying awake at night wondering which is better, drip tape or tubular irrigation. A friend sent me a helpful primer the other morning. Now I can go back to wondering if ...