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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Last week, we talked about watering your lawn and garden, and mentioned drip irrigation and soaker hoses. Let’s look at them a little more this week. Your typical garden hose is a solid piece of ...

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 ...

Irrigation systems use a network of pipes to carry water around the garden and deliver it to the plants through one of three methods. Drip irrigation is one of the main types, and it is very easy to ...

Tomato growers in Maharashtra’s drough-hit regions are increasingly turning towards drip irrigation as a solution. Over the last couple of years, around 70% of the state’s tomato cultivation has come ...