Comments on: 14 Smart Ways to Water Your Garden During a Heat Wave https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/14-smart-ways-water-garden-during-heat-wave/ The expert help you need to live the greener, healthier life you want. Sat, 23 Jul 2016 02:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Diane https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/14-smart-ways-water-garden-during-heat-wave/#comment-2158 Sat, 23 Jul 2016 02:38:57 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/14-smart-ways-water-garden-during-heat-wave/#comment-2158 In reply to Anna@GreenTalk.

Great ideas, Anna. I love the idea of shading the plants when it gets too hot – that never occurred to me. (Readers: make sure you check out green-talk dot com for more gardening expertise)!

]]> By: Anna@GreenTalk https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/14-smart-ways-water-garden-during-heat-wave/#comment-2157 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:26:27 +0000 https://www.newsite.biggreenpurse.com/14-smart-ways-water-garden-during-heat-wave/#comment-2157 Love the fish tank idea! I use straw that I heavily put down in the fall. The cold kills a lot of the straw weed seed. I also use shade clothes too to cover plants when it gets too hot.

Try and water the soil, and not the plant. If you water the plant, you might end up with bacteria spores from the soil on the plants. The leaves start to yellow and have brown spots. Eventually the leaves die.

Use pine bark for regular plants. Use shredded leaves, pine straw, and regular straw for veggies.

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