Hey, what's up everyone? Well, really hope you've enjoyed this week on the podcast, which is Watering Week, and if you're new to the podcast, scroll back in your feed. There's six episodes this week about how to water your garden in the different you know

products strategies techniques and some of the science behind how plants use water

so really hope you've enjoyed that today we're going to finish with reasons why you might want to hand water. I know that if you've listened to this week you know I am a big fan of automation, big fan of efficiency, which means that I typically do not hand water my garden.

However, there are a lot of different reasons why you might want to.

And so I'll run through a few of those and then I'll talk a little bit about some of the

watering cans that I've tested and I like, right? Okay, let's go with number one. Number one is,

if you are going to hand water, well, you can really tailor the amount of water you give each individual plant.

So if you have a smaller garden, one or two beds, or you just really want to spend that time, well then you can hand water and then you can

perfectly calibrate the amount of water you give each plant. And so that's not

only going to save water potentially, but it's also going to contribute to the health of the plant because if you do it right,

you're going to give your plant exactly the amount of water that it needs.

The second reason is it's going to keep your foliage dry.

Now if you're using drip irrigation or soaker hoses,

this is also the case.

However, if you're using overhead sprinkler systems or some other method, well then your

soil can sometimes splash up onto the plant or you can get the foliage wet, which is just mildew and fungus heaven.

That's what they want.

They want that high humidity environment, that moist environment to colonize,

especially those precious squash, zucchini plants, etc. I know that at least here in San Diego

powdery mildew such a big issue and sometimes it just propagates so quickly

you almost can't get rid of it especially when you have a large squash plant and that plant just,

you know, the powdery mildumite start in the middle and radiate outwards and you can't really see it

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