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Sara's Garden: Watering in the Heat of Summer
Posted by Sara Stubbs-Farris on 08/10/10As August arrives, we begin to wind into the hottest and driest days of the summer. Now is the time to consider different ways to supplement rainwater and keep your veggies growing!
You can water by hand if you have a few containers or a small plot, or you can hook your hose up to a good old-fashioned sprinkler for larger areas. Use the water saved in your rain barrel to supplement if you have one.
For my garden, I have installed drip hoses in the beds so that I don’t have to water everything by hand. This is a great time saving method, because I can just attach my garden hose to the drip hose in the beds, turn on the water and leave it for a while until the soil has had a good soaking. In the meantime, I can pull weeds, scout for pests, or snack on the tomatoes ripening on the vine!
Keep an eye open for my next post on scouting for and managing garden pests!
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