{"id":1864,"date":"2011-05-23T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2013-03-16T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:20:14","slug":"how-to-keep-track-of-watering-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/how-to-keep-track-of-watering-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Track of Watering Your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

From June to nearly October<\/strong> in southwest Idaho, gardeners cannot plan on any significant rainfall.\u00a0 If more than sagebrush is desired for the garden, one must have a watering plan.\u00a0 I do this by using a weekly watering chart.<\/p>\n

Each place<\/strong> I have to hook up a soaker hose, water by hand, or attend to a pot or tree is listed with a locational description.\u00a0 I base my descriptions on how I look at my yard from the house and compass points.\u00a0 Many times a plant or section has survived only because it was listed on the chart.<\/p>\n

Here is a copy<\/strong> of my chart for this year, which won’t do you a lot of good, but may stimulate your imagination and inspire your own chart making.\u00a0 (keep in mind that I live on an acre)\u00a0 I frequently reuse the same chart by color or symbol coding for sequential weeks, but it can get confusing if done more than two weeks in a row.<\/p>\n

watering chart 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Creating one<\/strong> is worth the effort since it frees one from trying to just remember or go around constantly checking soil saturation.\u00a0 Just make sure to mark or check the sections off.\u00a0 Chose a habit of doing this that is easiest, like every time you turn on the water for that section or just after you have soaked a pot.\u00a0 A timer is the next best thing, so that you remember to turn faucets o<\/em>ff.<\/p>\n

Another benefit<\/strong> is that watering needs are more easily explained to someone when you go on a summer vacation.\u00a0<\/em> More than one person has sighed in relief when given the chart to work with at my house.\u00a0 Happy watering.<\/p>\n

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From June to nearly October in southwest Idaho, gardeners cannot plan on any significant rainfall.\u00a0 If more than sagebrush is desired for the garden, one must have a watering plan.\u00a0 I do this by using a weekly watering chart. Each place I have to hook up a soaker hose, water by hand, or attend to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}