Watering the garden

Let's start by looking at basic rules for watering the garden or giving. So, watering the garden needs about an hour - expect that each fruit tree needs 20-30 liters of water a week. Sprinkle the trees, as a rule, "under the roots."

To water the garden you need at least 15-20 minutes, expect to spend 10-20 liters of water per square meter of garden crops. It is preferable to use drip irrigation.

Drip irrigation Is a method of watering a garden or a garden, in whichwater is fed into the root zone of cultivated crops by special dispensers-droppers. Such watering of a garden or a garden allows to save essentially water resources, to reduce man-hours.

If your garden or dacha has a flower bed, a lawn, then water them at a rate of 10-15 liters of water per square meter. For irrigation is suitable "artificial rain".

To water plants with a shallow root system, such as cabbage or tomatoes, it is necessary every 1-2 days. Cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin can be watered once in 3-4day, because their roots are located deeper in the earth. The mature berry bushes and fruit trees are tolerant to drought, young trees and bushes can not be left without water.

The frequency of watering the garden depends also on the composition of the soil in your area. If you have chernozem or a mixture of loam, sandand sludge, it is enough 1-2 times a week to water and loosen the soil for access to the air to the roots. Clay soils can also be watered once a week, but they need to be loosened more often - at least 2-3 times a week.

Watering a garden or a garden is best done not with cold water, but at least slightly heated - this reduces the risk of plant diseases. Also, the water from the tanks (barrels, troughs) is recommended to be shaken slightly before watering to enrich it with oxygen.

Watering the garden should be done either in the morning or in the evening. It is highly recommended not to water plants in the daytime, in the very sunshine - from this on the leaves there will be sunburn, and the moisture itself will evaporate quickly, and not having time to get to the roots.

Watering the garden in the "economy-variant" is carried out by an old kind watering can. A garden watering can with a shower nozzle is suitable for watering young plants. Such watering does not blur the soil, does not hurt tender shoots. However, it is uncomfortable, because filling the watering can is time and again tedious.

Another option for watering a garden manually is using a garden hose. The hose is connected to a water pump or toA barrel of water installed on a hill to provide water pressure. By the end of the hose, either special nozzles are used to "spray", or you can use your own "attachment" - your fingers.

The water pressure when watering the garden from the hose should be moderate, so as not to wash the soil. To direct the jet of the hose is best to the roots of plants - this way of watering is much more effective than "on the leaves".

The method of watering a garden with a hose has several disadvantages. First, watering vegetable and garden crops fromhose, you also water and weeds, and tracks and everything in general. This is a very wasteful use of valuable water resources. Secondly, too long a hose can cripple plants, and too short simply does not "reach out".

As an alternative to manual methods of watering the garden, semi-automatic irrigation systems are used. They are systems of pipes, dug inin the ground and connected by ball valves, adapters. Above the ground at the ends of the pipes are sprinklers: impulse, sector, pendulum, circular.

To the systems of semi-automatic watering of the garden is the previously mentioned system of drip irrigation. This system represents a flexible hose withholes closed by valves. When the water pressure is applied, the openings are opened and water is fed through them to the root zone of the plants. In the absence of pressure, the valves are closed. This system of watering the garden is recognized as one of the most convenient.

Semi-automatic irrigation systems of the garden are nothave "electronic brains", they must be turned on and off manually. Therefore, for those who do not have the opportunity to do this, automatic irrigation systems will do.

Automatic garden watering systems on the device and the principle of its operationpractically do not differ from semi-automatic ones. However, they have an electronic control system that completely "guides" the process of watering the garden, without your participation.

With the help of the control system, you can set the timethe beginning of watering and its endings, the type of irrigation, the pressure of the jet and many other important irrigation parameters. In this case sprinklers, unlike semi-automatic systems, do not become clogged, because they automatically "hide" in the ground for the duration of idle time.

Watering the garden is the most valuable tool in the "struggle for harvest". but in addition to lack of moisture, garden and garden crops are also afraid of its excess. Excess moisture is not absorbed by plant roots, but only creates favorable conditions for the development of rot, slugs and other pests.

Water your garden properly and a big harvest!