Easy Watering small Vegetable Garden Plots

Do you water frequently? Leave a section of hose laid out down the center of the garden. Drive double stakes of wood at intervals to keep the hose from decimating the vegetables as you pull it back and forth.

Double stakes protect garden from hose

Another gardener, who has several small vegetable plots, drives a stake at the corner of each bed to protect plants while he drags the hose around.

Most of us move sprinklers around to get an even watering in a garden area. It takes time, and the water is rarely spread evenly.

A neighbor of mine, starting a garden, set up his sprinkler and staked out exactly where it watered. Those were the boundaries of his garden.

A chrysanthemum in the vegetable garden is like a canary in a coal mine. The mum wilts before other plants when water is needed, giving you early warning to start irrigating.

Save your water from cooking vegetables. Let it cool. Toss out the door on the herbs or salad greens in your kitchen garden, or the flowers, if that’s what grows there. In winter, use for house‑plants.

Don’t Forget the Flowers

Plant tiny bulbs such as snowdrops, scilla, crocus, grape hyacinths, and chionodoxa in a place they’ll be noticed in early spring but undisturbed during the summer. There’s nothing worse than inadvertently digging them up as you cultivate after their foliage has disappeared and you’ve forgotten they were there. Instead of putting them in a flower bed, try them below light mulch under deciduous trees and shrubs.

Beware of gifts. If your flower-gardening friends offer pieces of perennials they’re dividing, investigate the plant’s growing habits before you plunk it in the ground. It may be a spreader that will take over the garden and become a nuisance.

Have you inherited old flower gardens with your newly purchased home? “It pays to sit and watch for a year. If something continues to grow despite neglect, it’s hardy. Don’t fight it, keep it,” advises an experienced restorer of old grounds. You may find it easier to relocate gardens using old plant material, rather than trying to refurbish a garden in the same place. You can prepare soil in a new bed and move pieces of plants from the old site when you are ready.

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