How often should I water established plants?

How often should I water established plants?

Tracy DiSabato-Aust (Garden Designer and Author) gives expert video advice on: How often should I water new plants?; How often should I water established plants?; When is the best time of day to water garden plants? and more...

Watering established plants is something we need to be very cautious of and careful. As stewards of the land, we really need to look in how much water we use and so often, homeowners, gardeners, have automated irrigation systems which I sometimes call irritation systems. But this will usually supply a shallow watering very frequently. This is the worst type of watering for established plants. What we want to do is we want to water less frequently, we want to water more thoroughly so that our plants will root deeper into the soil and be more drought resistant. So, you can set that on your irrigation system to water less frequently, more thoroughly and your plants will establish better.