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Water Rules The who, what, when, where, why and how on watering your garden  Image courtesy istockphoto If your plants luxuriously bathed in rain earlier this summer you may be a bit complacent. Why water? Let nature handle it. By mid-to-late summer, rain tapers off in many parts of the country, say gardening experts, and you'll probably have to do some watering for your plants to thrive. The process can be time consuming and expensive. And in addition, plants don't always indicate their needs. "When you look at a plant it's sometimes hard to tell whether it needs water," says Maurice Ogutu, extension educator horticulture for University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. To avoid wasteful techniques that eat into your day and don't even benefit your plants, here are some watering tips from gardening experts. 1. Water when the plants need it. To test, insert a drill gauge into the soil. Water if the top inch is dry. Gardening expert Nancy J. Ondra waters the soil for 20 minutes, checks to see if the water soaked in and waters again if necessary. "Plants can only take up water through the roots," says Ogutu. 2. Watering adequately is more important than when you water. Ogutu recommends the morning, so water that hits the plant leaves has time to evaporate. However, other experts disagree. "Whenever you have time is the best time to water," says Ondra, author of "The Perennial Care Manual" (Storey Publishing, 2009). "Timing isn't critical if you're not wetting the plant," says the Philadelphia-area garden writer. 3. "Mulch is very important to conserve water," says Ogutu. If you didn't do so earlier, now, when the soil has warmed up, is a good time to spread mulch around the base of plants, says the extension expert. He suggests using a layer of straw or grass clippings without herbicides or chemicals. 4. Arrange soaker hoses in the garden. These porous pipes bring water to the plants, not the sidewalk, Ondra says. 5. Group together plants with like needs. This may not help streamline watering this summer, but will help when you plan next summer's garden. "For example, don't put sage, which needs little water, next to lettuce," says Ondra.
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Bev Bennett, a veteran food writer and editor, is the author of "Dinner for Two: A Cookbook for Couples" and "30-Minute Meals for Dummies"
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