Watering Solutions – Farm Fresh Tuesday (#6)

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Are you watering your garden properly? Many people don’t. Today, I will be sharing all about watering solutions for your garden via my own personal tips, and those solutions found in our featured post!

How to Water Your Garden Properly

Now that the summer heat is settling in, watering your garden is essential. If you are a beginner gardener, this post is for you!

I participate in a lot of online gardening groups, and one thing I see time and time again, is people incorrectly watering their garden. And then they wonder why their plants are struggling.

I saw a post on last weeks Blog Hop on this topic on how to water your garden, and decided to feature it this week as it is very timely!

Watering Tips for the Garden

My personal tips on watering your garden the correct way are these:

• water deeply, every few days on an overcast/rainy day if you can to prevent extra evaporation
• when you think you are done watering, dig down 6″ or so and check to see if the soil is wet down there, it should be!
• do not water briefly every day: this only waters the surface roots, which dry out very quickly due to the heat of the sun
• your goal should be to water the deeper roots, you want the water to go as deep as possible, so the plants will send their roots deeper
• plants with only surface roots will struggle and not produce well for you
• plants with deep roots will be happier healthier plants
• MULCH! It conserves water, prevents evaporation AND prevents weeds! See my article on mulching: The Secret to Easy Gardening, Use Mulch for No Weeding!

Our Featured Post This Week: Watering Solutions

This week I chose to feature on this weeks Blog Hop, a post from CrazyOrganicMama.com on 5 Watering Solutions for Your Home Garden.

Her post talks about the many different ways to water, with tips on how to do it properly. She gives great tips on why using a sprinkler is bad, hand watering with either a hose or a watering can is time consuming and physically demanding, introduces Olla Irrigation Jugs, and discusses soaker hoses and irrigation systems. So be sure to go check it out, and get all the scoop on these different watering methods and be sure to irrigate your garden properly.

Welcome to our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop!

Thank you for visiting our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop! I have teamed up with some other awesome homesteading bloggers to host this awesome blog hop! Each Tuesday this blog hop opens for you to share your posts on gardening, herbalism, crafts, homesteading, food preservation.

Feel free to share your in season gardening and homesteading posts with us and please feel free to share this blog hop where ever you like! There is a link down below for you to click on to share your posts!

To Be Featured on the Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop:

Please remember, for a chance to be featured next week, PLEASE LINK TO OUR BLOG HOP in your post! It has been difficult to find articles that had followed thru with this the last few weeks!

Also, it helps to have your own featured image in your post, other than a pin! Especially in round up posts! Thank you!

Your Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop Hosts Are:

Shelle from both Dehydrating Made Easy & Rockin W Homestead

Strawberry Banana Fruit Leather Recipe by Shelle at Dehydrating Made Easy

Lisa from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

How to Preserve Your Garden Harvest by Lisa at The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

AnnMarie from 15 Acre Homestead

8 Fundamental Survival Skills Every Outdoorsman Should Know by Annie at 15 Acre Homestead

And myself! I’m Tamara and I blog here at The Reid Homestead

Are You Ready to Start Preserving Your Harvest this Summer?

Your Farm Fresh Tuesdays Blog Hop Hosts are all participating in a summer-long blogger roundup event, Preserving the Harvest! This round up, includes different ways of preserving 23 of the most popular fruits and vegetables!

Each blog post participating, lists all the other posts near the bottom of their post! Each post, focuses on one fruit or vegetable, and all the ways to preserve it!

I am sharing all about Preserving Green Beans! Check the list at the bottom of my post to see all the other fruits and vegetables and how to preserve them! You can find a ton of great recipes and preservation methods from our blogging friends in this round up!

Share Your Farm Fresh Posts This Week!

• Homesteading, homemaking, sustainable and green ideas, DIY, healthy living, and self-reliance posts are all welcome. Share up to 4 family friendly posts.
• You may share older posts with ‘in season’ information, but please don’t share the same posts each week!
• If you share your posts in this party, you are giving permission for others to link to your posts….that’s a good thing because it helps get more eyes on your posts.
• Check each host’s hop post to see if you were featured this week.
• Be sure to link back to this blog hop so that we can feature you next week.
• Visit some of the other posts and leave a comment…let them know you found them here!
• Feel free to apply to our Farm Fresh Bloggers Roundup Page!
• Please do not link to other blog hops, linky parties, or to giveaways in this homesteading hop. However, you may leave a comment below telling us about your blog hop or giveaway!

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Thank You!

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