GROWING VEGETABLES IN DRY AREAS OF THE COUNTRY~extended to add plants

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi desertwillow!

That is such good advice about the pipes. In my last house I gardened on the local heavy clay (called Wychert); it used to dry out & crack in hot summers. I had to move a 20ft tree because it was affecting my fruit cage.
I used the pipe method to keep it well irrigated & the tree survived & flourished. I had read about it while working in the US.

[By the way I will be in touch soon; I have been a bit poorly lately.]


:rose Hattie :rose

 

[desertwillow]

Sorry you've been poorly-get better soon. Another use for clay pots.....fill the bottom hole like you do for in ground watering. Place it in a pot with no drainage holes and in the space between the two fill with vermiculite. Place cuttings for rooting in the vermiculite and keep water in the clay pot and it keeps the vermiculite evenly damp and the cuttings take much faster.