Hello, what's up everyone. Kevin here from Epic Gardening. We are talking today about

watering your plants and the better way to think about it is how I would phrase this. A lot of people want to know the

schedule, the amount and the rate that we water our plants, which is a great

question. All these are good questions. The problem with those

questions is they don't go one level deeper and think about what's actually

happening so that we can then understand the real question that needs to be answered.

So why do we water our plants in the first place?

Plants need to be able to get enough water in their root systems to keep the growth above the soil growing properly.

When they are able to do this, they have a good root system, the soil is well conditioned,

it's well moistened, etc.

When we add water to our soil, what is actually happening in that soil?

It is filling in all of the area that is available to it, right?

So all the space in between your bits of purlide

and your sand and your hummus and all that stuff.

And then it stays there, and there's a couple ways that it goes away.

So it's either going to drain out the bottom,

the roots are going to use it,

or it's going to leave out the top, it's going to evaporate.

Eventually then the soil becomes too dry again and voila you may have to water again. So when to water, now there's three ways that water leaves the system. So then you have to think, okay, well, what are the ways that affect those ways that water leaves the system, right? So higher temperatures means more evaporation.

The type of soil you have means

different levels of drainage.

The size of your container means water is held either in higher quantities or lower quantities.

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