The 13 Best Hands-Off Ways To Water The Plants In Your Garden

Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.

Half the Water You’re Using on Your Garden Is Going to Waste — Here’s How to Stop It

According to the EPA’s WaterSense program, roughly half of all outdoor water use is wasted through overwatering, evaporation, and misdirected irrigation. That’s not a distant policy problem; that’s ...

10 Easy Ways to Get Your Garden Beds Ready for Spring Planting

Wondering how to prep your plants before spring gardening season arrives? Here are 10 simple ways to clean your garden beds ...

March in the Garden: It’s seed-starting time in San Diego County

Let’s see if that continues this month as we head into spring gardening! March is the time to start your summer vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Started now, your seedlings will be ready to ...
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Marking 60 Years of Drip Irrigation Innovation

For six decades — from a desert kibbutz to California’s Central Valley — I have had the exciting good fortune to watch drip ...
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Embracing spring: It's the perfect time to plan your garden

Slowly warming temperatures create the ideal conditions to plan and prepare for the growing season ahead.