Watering Tips (for the Driest Time of the Year)Watering Tips (for the Driest Time of the Year)

Plants, just like us, are composed mostly of water. They need it to perform vital life processes like germinating, growing, keeping themselves upright, flowering, fruiting, and forming seeds. Plants also absorb nutrients in a dissolved form, so they need water to stay healthy ward off diseases, and pass on maximum nutrition to us, at harvest time. How plants get their water is the big question. Ideally, they receive adequate moisture from rain, but as growers know all too well – that doesn’t always happen when moisture is needed most. In the garden, the difference between irrigating and not can mean a...