Spread the love“`html When it comes to gardening, one of the most critical components is ensuring that your plants receive the right amount of water. Traditional sprinkler systems can be wasteful, ...

There’s a particular kind of garden that stops you in your tracks. It doesn’t shout. It draws you in quietly, with depth at ...

Trees planted in lawns can benefit from a mulched ring to reduce competition with grass roots and to keep mowers and weed ...

Three principles are important when watering trees, shrubs, fruit trees and any other landscape plants: Apply water at the right time, apply it over a large area and apply it to the right depth. The ...

Q: You have always said to add watering days instead of more water per application. During the hottest September on record, the water district ads told us to water fewer days (three in fall and one ...

Irrigation is a must in our climate. Even if your garden has all native plants, they will need supplemental irrigation for at least their first two summers before they become established. In addition, ...

This week, the question comes from yours truly (i.e., Dr. Marisa Thompson, regular writer of this column). I’ve heard about subsurface drip as an improved way to irrigate turfgrass, so I invited NMSU ...