7 Watering Mistakes You're Probably Making

Not mulching was the biggest watering related mistake I made for years. I had plants in completely exposed soil that would dry out every day, and require watering almost every day. Now I have a Back to Eden style garden covered in tons of woodchips (I recommend Chip Drop). Even during heatwaves when it's over 90F / 32C my tomatoes do just fine.

I water in the evening so the plants have time to absorb the water overnight. Haven’t had any issues as a result. In fact my tomatoes and cucumbers are thriving. Good video!

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I water in the evening for two reasons: first is that I leave for work at 8ish and I'm not a morning person, so I'm not getting up earlier. Second is that in this season, we get heat waves that mean it may not dip below 90 until 8pm. I can't take the heat. So, I water a lot in the evening, but at the base so that it doesn't sit on the leaves.

I have a private well that is quite deep and cold. One of the mistakes I’ve made is watering heat-loving plants like peppers with the cold water directly from my well. The plants react like they’ve experienced a cold spell, and stop growing. I have to lay my hose on the ground in the sun, and wait for the water to warm up before watering my peppers and eggplants. I can get a fair amount of watering done before the water turns cold, but I can see how having a water storage tank would be advantageous!

“That Goldilocks amount of water, not too much, not too little” 😂 love your phrases

I don’t have a faucet in the backyard, and mostly have fruits & veggies in pots. I use clay pots with lids buried in the soil to fill them with water and hollow clay ‘spikes’ in the soil, you can put a wine bottle filled with water in it with the neck down into the ‘spike’ so it fills with water and slowly waters the plants. Water bottles with a few little holes in them, a few centimeters above the bottom, buried in the plant pot, works fine too. It can be refilled and irrigates slowly, so I don’t have to check & water daily.

Watering is always an issue for me... I use an irrigation system and have to revise it every year to match my new garden layout and it can bring me so much stress sometimes 😅

I was definitely watering incorrectly. Thanks for the video.

Thank u dude, I suspected I was watering too much but this makes me certain and taught me so much about watering in general 😊