Overhead watering of your vegetable garden with a sprinkler or hose seems like a completely normal and acceptable form of irrigation, but for tomatoes, this method is one of the mistakes to avoid when ...

This undated photo shows plants being watered in New Paltz, N.Y. Watering with a hose end sprayer is satisfying to the gardener but other methods of watering are much more effective in getting enough ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's a reason so many gardeners love growing tomatoes in their garden. Not only are they tasty, but one plant's crop yield can be nearly ...

If you can, water tomatoes with a slow drip soaker system, not with a hose. Regular deep watering, weekly in moderate heat, more often in high summer, will saturate the soil and promote root growth.

The gardener who can do a thorough job of watering with hose in hand is rare indeed. Assuming that the hose spews out about 3 gallons per minute in a circle about 4 feet in diameter, I roughly ...

For Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm, flexible irrigation design is the key to managing unpredictable weather, limited ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

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 ...