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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you plan to travel this summer, now might be a good time to install an automatic watering system. Doing so can ensure that your plants will not be under-watered or over-watered in your absence. An ...

* Different soil types (clay, sand and loam) have different water infiltration rates. * Using an on and off watering schedule is best for lawns. * Drip irrigation is effective but must be monitored ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - We have now entered that dreaded period for gardeners across North Texas: when the summer turns hot and dry. North Texas weather is perfectly happy to go weeks at a time ...

If you're replacing one plant with another, planting your beds or changing your landscape around, it's a good time to also rethink your drip system. That's because your irrigation needs have probably ...

Watering is a necessary chore, yet it doesn't need to be a challenge. Whether you love it or loathe it, you need to do it to keep plants alive, but you can relieve some of the pressure with ...

As groundwater levels decline, more efficient ways of watering crops such as drip irrigation are getting popular. Good-quality drip irrigation systems can be costly for farmers, so they are often ...