 Deep watering in Oz
Forgive me if this has been posted as I've looked and can't see anything.
In Australia we've been getting some extremely hot weather (30-40C) and we're on water restrictions here as well. This year with the thought of going through summer watering my tomato plants and the limited water not getting to the roots, I decided to adapt the way I water to the needs of the plant.
In order to get water to the roots, I dug in lengths 45cm of flexible drainage pipe leaving some sticking out of the ground.
This proved to use less water and get it where it needed to be, the root zone. I used it on 30 tomato plants over the summer and I can say it worked well and gets the thumbs up here. It worked well both in the ground and in pots. (see photo) |