This water gardening tip will save you time and money.
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The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that nearly 40 percent of household water is used for lawn and garden maintenance. One way to reduce this is to build a rain barrel to collect rainwater runoff from your home. Since rainwater is soft and devoid of minerals, chlorine, fluoride and other harmful chemicals, it’s great for your […]
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Melons are other crops that are sometimes deliberately stressed with saltwater at the end of the fruit-production cycle in order to encourage the plant to produce sweeter fruit. Conventional growers withhold water during fruit development to create the beneficial stress that produces sweeter melons. The production of more sugars in […]
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Some crops actually thrive on a little bit of salt in their water. If you want to perform experiments on your garden and contribute to the data mass on this topic, the following are four other vegetable crops that might be appropriate candidates for deliberate saltwater-irrigation experiments: Broccoli: Broccoli couldn’t be […]
