**With vegetable garden watering the best way is the easiest way**

Vegetable garden watering is a very important part of vegetable gardening. And it can take up your time so we try to keep it simple. Anyway running around with a watering can or a hose is not much

fun. Also with a lot of areas having water problems you might have restrictions placed on watering your garden. Not a very good situation to be in.

I like trickle or drip irrigation because it doesn’t use much water and the water can be easily controlled.

But the best part is once you have rolled out the pipes and set them up to a tap you can all but forget about watering. I like to run the irrigation pipes about a foot apart down the vegetable garden beds. If the vegetable garden bed is three or four foot wide then you will need two irrigation pipes per bed. One thing you have to be careful with, with trickle irrigation is sometimes the soil on the top of the bed will not get wet as the water will flow downwards in a sort of triangle shape.

So after planting seeds you should wet the garden bed with a hose and this will get the seeds started. You might have to water it a couple of times until the roots get down deep enough to get the water from the trickle irrigation.

If you have small vegetable gardens scattered around your yard then you will need to water them on a regular basis either with a hose or a watering can.

If getting water is a problem then you should only water your vegetable plants and nothing else. A lot easier said than done. That means weeding or covering the ground with sawdust or mulch to cover the weeds. Most water is lost through evaporation from the plants so to cut down on evaporation make sure your plants are the only plants in your garden. Vegetable garden watering is a part of gardening that has to be done so make it easy.

Check out our Vegetable Gardening page and see what you think, but now is the time to stop thinking and just throw a few seeds around the house to see what happens.