WATERING WITHOUT WASTE

by Kathy Jentz

Water the plant’s root zone, not the foliage.

So far in 2018, my garden has gone from drought to deluge and now it looks like we’ll be back to drought again. Normally, in the greater Washington metropolitan region, the six weeks in the heart of summer, from mid-July through the end of August, are our driest period of the year. On top of that, it is typically the same time that we gardeners abandon our plants for a few days or weeks of…