How to Water a Garden Easily & Efficiently

Series Summary

Some folks enjoy watering the garden with a water hose - it can be relaxing chore. Others think however, that it would be nice if the garden plants watered themselves - especially if you have many plants or a small vegetable garden. Though it will not be that easy, but watering the plants can be almost that easy with the aid of irrigation inventions such as drip tape and soaker hoses. It's easy enough to learn efficient, time saving techniques for watering the plants in your garden. All you need is an expert to show you how. If you would like to learn irrigation tips and techniques to take care of the plants in your garden, you can learn for free online from one of our experts.

In this free gardening series, learn how to water your garden plants from farmer and irrigation expert Tom Ashley. Tom will show you efficient ways to water your garden plants with simple irrigation equipment. He will teach you what irrigation supplies and tools you need, how to use a soaker hose to water your garden, how to use drip tape to water your garden, how to use a mini sprinkler, how to use a mister to water your garden plants and herbs, and how to use overhead sprinklers in your greenhouse. So take the time to learn how to use the great irrigation techniques and sit back as the watering gets done with much less work on your part.

Video Transcript

"One of the most crucial ingredients to growing a plant is water, without water a plant will not grow. So, there's many ways of delivering water to a plant from a watering can by hand and a hose with a wand or any number of irrigation systems. What we're going to talk about here are different irrigating systems you can use to deliver water over time, over long period of time, gently soaking and giving the plants a thorough drinking of water and save you time while you can set up your irrigation, turn it on, and go to other parts of the garden and do some weeding, do some picking, all while the water is taking care of itself."