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.

If you’re not using soaker hoses in your garden, now’s the time to start. It's a highly efficient way to water, so while you may spend a little on a soaker hose and fittings at the onset, you will ...

Share your planting tips Do you have a gardening trick you'd like to share? Email [email protected] a photo and explanation. Angie Waldner of Salem thinks ahead when it comes to watering ...

You can set the drippers or emitters on your drip irrigation tape at different intervals based on how far apart your crops are spaced. To try simple trench irrigation, use a hoe to form trenches ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Laying out the hoses in my beds as I installed drip last year. The hoses uncoil with the heat of the sun. Credit: Amanda Blum Drip irrigation systems ...

Drip irrigation applies water through small holes called emitters in a network of hoses or pipes rather than through broadcasting sprinklers or hoses. It delivers the water more closely to the root ...

RIVERDALE, Calif. — Last year, the federal government gave farmer Dan Errotabere half of the water it had awarded him the previous year to cultivate his 5,200 acres. But he still managed to reap a ...

Netafim, an Orbia business and provider of precision agriculture solutions, said on Wednesday that it was helping farmers of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh to grow more tomatoes by spending less on agri ...

Having water in your yard where you need it is a real blessing. Remember, people used to have to carry it by hand. But come winter, those hoses, pipes, and valves are susceptible to the cold. As the ...