What tips do you use to save water or protect your plants from the heat?
@auckthom
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Thank you ladies for your excellent info. I am 70 and have been involved in gardening and maintaining a lawn since I was 12. I am also a teacher is 40 plus years who taught science amongst other subjects. Our shorelines have changed in that time contrary to statement in the previous comment. It may not appear to be so on a map of the world but locally it has changed for a variety of reasons. Plants do love carbon dioxide which people and animals breathe out. They do not like carbon monoxide full of other pollutants which is produced by vehicles which use fossil fuels. Your tips are about effective water usage which I applaud. The river which runs through my city is very low this year and there have been some restrictions in place. This has not affected me because I’m always careful with my water. My lawns always looked their best when I watered in the morning and watered deeply. This encouraged the roots to grow deeper accessing water located further underground. Shallow grass roots are weak grass roots. I had a rain gauge and I gave my lawn 1 inch a week. My planters and hanging baskets I, too, will water 3 times a day because their roots can dry out during the ever increasing heat domes we are now getting in the summer. I appreciate my city’s diligence in cleaning the water from the river before I use it and before it goes back into the river. I have rain barrels at the end of each downspout and use that water for my flower beds, pots and hanging baskets. I no longer maintain lawns. I have drip hoses that run throughout my perennials. I see no reason to let my water evaporate into the air needlessly. Our planet does use condensation and distillation. However evaporation and condensation move our water around from place to place. The previous commenter may not notice changes in the shoreline but it is easy to see the shrinkage of our glaciers and the water in our rivers, lakes and wetlands. The more efficiently we use our water, the less water that will have to be treated and cleaned. Farmers, increasingly, are having to depend on irrigation to grow our food. I would rather they got the water from the river than keep someone’s lawn green. This is a long comment from an old gardener. You folks at Dirt Magicians have university degrees in this stuff so please correct me if any of my information is incorrect. I feel that it is essential that we pass on facts. Lol. I almost wrote accurate facts. Of course a statement isn’t a fact unless it is accurate.
@dirtmagicians
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Thank you for the kind words and sharing your experience and knowledge!
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