What Should Be The Correct Watering?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Compliance with the rules of watering will help to get an excellent harvest in the garden of any summer resident. There are many basic rules and specific requirements for specific plants

For example, in any situation, one should try to avoid shallow irrigations, since they provide soil for the formation of a root system in crops on the surface of the earth. Everything would be fine, but such roots simply will not be able to properly extract water from the depth.

After the crops are planted in the beds, they begin to most of all need regular and timely watering. This condition helps to make the soil more compact. But in such a situation, the earth will often have to be loosened. Nutrients are also washed out of the soil with a stream of water, due to which it will be necessary to feed the plants more often. And the weeds then begin to grow faster and stronger. The best way to help is such irrigation, in which the water soaks the soil down to the depth of the roots buried in the ground. For annual plants, this size will be from fifteen to twenty-five centimeters. But other crops, for example, peonies, require watering to a depth of seventy centimeters.

Avoid watering the plants too often, as sparse but proper watering will help form a deep root system so that crops can better withstand drought. But this requirement does not need to be observed when caring for root crops in the form of beets, carrots and others. In this case, watering should be done often enough so that the soil does not have time to dry out. If this is not observed, then soon the structure of the root crops will become rough, and their surface will be covered with cracks. Watering frequency also depends on other external circumstances.

In drought and heat, container plants planted in sandy soil need to be watered more often, and, conversely, in cooler months, heavy soil should be watered less frequently.

Watering must be carried out in several passes. This will ensure good water absorption into the soil. After the earth has absorbed a large amount of moisture, you need to water the same places several more times at intervals. Thus, the water will penetrate deeply, and will not remain only on the surface of the soil.

You should try to water each plant near the roots. You also need to ensure that the minimum amount of water gets on the leaves. This condition is especially important for those plants that are susceptible to fungal diseases. In the late evening, watering can provoke the formation of spots or downy mildew on the foliage. Also, fungal diseases in such a favorable environment begin to develop very quickly.

As for the time, you need to water the garden for the first time in the morning, before 9 o'clock strikes, and then in the evening from five to seven or from six to eight. Watering during the day is not worth it, since in the hot conditions of the summer season, such a temperature drop can cause a physiological shock state in plants. Moreover, if water also gets on the foliage. In such a situation, plants can begin to wilt right during the watering itself, which is highly undesirable for any gardener.

Water in the soil after irrigation must be maintained for a long period of time. There are some ways to keep the moisture in for as long as possible. For example, experienced summer residents and gardeners generally consider loosening to be a dry irrigation procedure, since such an operation significantly reduces evaporation by eliminating capillaries that provide water rise from the depths of the soil. Loosening itself should be carried out only the next day after watering has been carried out. The depth in this case should be about five centimeters, but not more. Good for keeping moisture in the ground and mulching. The mulch here is grass, bark or tree chips. The layer that is applied to the soil has a size of six to seven centimeters.

If you choose between underfilling and overflow, then, of course, the first option is better, since excess water may prevent oxygen from penetrating into the ground. As a result, this factor has a positive effect on the development of anaerobic bacteria, and the roots themselves begin to rot from the inside. Overflow can also change the taste of berries or other fruits for the worse. For example, this applies to raspberry bushes. However, a long absence of watering does not threaten anything good, since this aspect can negatively affect the yield and flowering of crops.

If possible, it is sometimes necessary to water the plants with warm water. This is an important condition, first of all, for plants that love warmth (cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, and others). It is better to pour cold water for such crops in a small stream.