Farm & Garden
6 Ways to Water Your Plants and When
When do you water your garden, and what are some clever ways to do so? Let’s find out.
Most avid gardeners know the basic needs of plants: sun, water, nutrients, and air. Today, we narrow our focus to the hydration of your garden. Your local climate determines your garden’s water needs. So when does one water their plants, and what are some clever ways to do so?
Life, as we know it, relies on water for sustenance. Water cleans, transports nutrients, removes wastes, and more. Its flowing behavior, tendency to adhere and cohere, and ability to dissolve most things define its function in a system. As water fills all our spaces, so does it with other living creatures.
Whereas water in blood connects all body parts, dissolved nutrients flow from the roots through the xylem to the leaves. Yet, plants lack pumping hearts like we have. Instead, they transpire water through their leaves in tiny pores called stomas. The negative pressure of water escaping the stoma pulls water up from the roots in a molecular transport chain.
