How To Water Your Veggie Garden

When you have a home garden you need to think about how you’ll water. The soil needs to be kept at a level of moisture where it is not waterlogged or at the other extreme, so deprived of water that the plants die. Somewhere in between those polar opposites lies the point you are aiming for.  When you garden with the Vital Veggies super soil, it’s quite difficult to waterlog the soil and with a raised bed garden you’ll discover any over watering is absorbed into the subsoil or trickles out the side of the bed.

One of the other lovely features of the Vital Veggies soil is it’s adsorption capacity; meaning few nutrients are leached out of the garden with any water because of the soils designed high cation exchange capacity - ability to hold and release available minerals.

Further, the high rates of soil organic matter act sponge like to store and release water as is needed. Additionally we’ve added a very special clay material that absorbs 5 times its weight in water and then slowly releases it as is needed.

Overall the Vital Veggies super soil makes watering a breeze.

Your Options For Watering:

• By hand using a hand operated spray nozzle or a watering can.

  If you have the time to use this method this is the best. For those into doing all the right things, this method can more closely simulate rain than any other method. It keeps the plants leaves clean and can deliver homeopathic doses of minerals to the leaves in the form of a foliar  feed.  The best to use are nozzle wands that can be turned upwards so the water is falling exactly like rain onto the plants and the soil. There are water cans you can find in nurseries with the spray nozzle upward facing.

• With a fixed irrigation system

  Here are the options:

  • weeper hose – manually set to water

    This choice involves a lot less work than hand watering and is setup with a basic tap timer, with  weeper hose running the entire length of a bed at 30cm intervals across the bed.

  • weeper hose on a tap timer with multi zones

    As for a) above, and with a number of zones for watering multiple beds with varying quantities of water

  • automated system that senses soil moisture

    We use high quality weeper hose and have it switched on and off as is required by the soils needs, all automatically so your plants are always getting the moisture they require.

Please enquire and we can discuss your outlay for this kind of systems. You’ll find it is easier and cheaper to have this irrigation installed when your garden bed is filled and prepared for planting.