Oh Yeah—Water!

It’s easy to forget about adjusting your watering schedule in the spring, but as the days get longer, your garden’s going to need a drink.  Here are a few water-wise techniques:

Avoid overhead watering:  This can spread disease, and it wastes water that is lost through evaporation.  Overhead watering can also lead to scorch marks on tender leaves.  Instead, use drip irrigation or a soaker hose, or just lay a hose at the foot of large trees and shrubs until the ground is soaked.

Long, infrequent drinks:  This isn’t the cocktail hour.  Don’t give your plants a little sip every evening.  A good, long soak once a week (or once a month for drought-tolerant natives) will encourage deep, healthy roots.

Mulch, mulch, mulch:  There’s nothing like a good, thick layer of mulch to keep roots moist and suppress weeds.  Let our Happy Frog organic soil conditioner do the work for you.  It’s packed with beneficial microbes that actually help plant roots access moisture and nutrients in the soil and better survive droughts.