If you’ve arrive here from Google hoping for a method to never water your garden, you’ll be disappointed to hear the answer is Mother Nature.
Here in Chicago, we’ve had a miserable spring for being outdoors but wonderful weather for the outdoors. In the last 10 days, we had an inch of rain (as reported at O’Hare Airport) spread perflectly across multiple days. Since Memorial Day, I haven’t had to pull out the hose at all.
Most plants would like a half inch to inch of water per week at this time of year (around 75 degrees). The weather has been a little cooler — the peppers are anxious for some heat — and the rain has been plenty to keep everything growing. Too much rain at any one time and the water runs off instead of soaks into the ground. Except for May 26th (almost 2 inches of rain), we haven’t had any heavy rains.
Mother Nature: Please keep up the regular half inch per week rain schedule. But maybe move it to the very early mornings.
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