Why You Should Water your Vegetables Less | The Secret to Better Yields
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2020
- This video is all about 2 reasons why you should water your vegetables less. These are lesser-known tips that can make a huge impact, for flavour, productivity and resilience. It is vital that plants are strong and healthy so they can better deal with challenges that come from the weather as well as pests. Here I show you a quick and simple way to help your vegetables in your vegetable garden become more resilient. I also show a clever way of making your tomatoes tastier!
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Huw’s videos are pure gardening hypnosis. I’m mesmerised by the blue skies, sunshine and lovely healthy luscious foliage. Listening to his gentle voice transports me to another world!! Would love to sit and paint in his garden.
Hi Nita, I solved many issues and gained confidence in my gardening watching..especially how he shows that experience and observing is the best lessons. I havent painted in years but love drawing observing and interpreting nature and animals anything that inspires.🙂💗🌿
My same sentiments.
Same
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I just drip irrigation on my raised bed, and have had great success with it. I have the timer set to water for 1 hour every 5 days. This does a deep soak of the water into the soil, and then lets it dry out before the next watering. The plants get their roots down deep to take advantage water that soaked in on the watering day, and don't mind the top of the soil drying out. My beds are mostly compost, along with some biochar, so it hold water well.
Are your drip hoses safe for drinking from?
This was a very informative comment. Thank you.
Sound like a great set up. Lovely
Congratulations on your books. Thank God your father brought you out to the garden so early in your life. It has been a blessing to the world
Remember the fourth commandment of Exodus 20:8-11 reminds us of Genesis 2:2&3❣️
I had to rewatch this a couple of times.
I got distracted by all the beautiful growth in that garden, and stopped paying attention to what you were saying - sorry Huw LOL
🤦♀️I thought I was the only one. 😁
Such a nice compliment!
Me too.
Yes, happens to me a lot with his videos. I have serious garden envy.
His eyes are up there
Love your videos! Been bulking up on my knowledge as a beginner veg grower in wales 🏴 I’ve now successfully started to grow onions, carrots, beets, peas, cucumber, pumpkins, courgettes, butternut squash, broccoli, tomatoes, sweet corn, radish and finally Cauliflower not to mention a plot in the garden for a massive meadow of wild British flowers! Love it thanks for the knowledge sir
That might work in some Climate's but not all great video thanks for sharing, I have been growing vegetables for over 35 years all the best from Canada!
Ya...like here in hot southern California. If I missed a day in summer, I lose whole plants.
I was thinking the same. His accent indicates that he is in a very different climate to mine - Northern tropical Australia....
Here in Cornwall we still have a hosepipe ban from last summer(2022) so I rewatched this video and I’m glad I did as it has allayed some of my fears that I can’t water everything as much as I would have normally.
I do this out of necessity, I don't have a ready source of water in my garden and I sometimes don't visit for a week or more at a time (is out of town). So I mulch heavily (no slugs in my climate) and hope for the best. It's very hot here in summer (Serbia) and yes, things run to seed early and tomatoes can suffer in August, but I am trying to get to the point of relying solely on rain, we'll see.
It must be so good not having the climate for slugs! I have been out every evening (until recently) gathering molluscs and disposing of them. It seems to have made a difference though as the numbers seem smaller now. My rocket salad has gone to seed and other things may do the same.
Your garden looks awesome!
I do a lot of container/ grow bag gardening. I wonder if that would apply to me as well since I operate with the limitation of space per unit plant, in a restricted soil area. I become anxious once I see the leaves beginning to droop. But I'll be brave. I did loose a lot of parsley by not watering consistantly.
@@TerryMcGearyScotland Terry .hi..what does it mean to go to seed? LIA X
@@SpecialgiftsLA hi. Simply, forming flowers and hence, seeds. Not a great state of affairs if what you are growing the plant for is the leaves as the plant’s resources then go flowers, fruits and seeds. The edible parts, such as taproots, may become too coarse to eat. Thanks for asking.
@@TerryMcGearyScotland ohh I see..So glad I asked. Its always interesting learning as I go..I have sown lemon seeds and find them barely growing ..I suspect they need larger room or pot aswell as less watering..Thank you for that!! Lia x
I don't water my vegetables at all and they love it! Just posted a video on some of the techniques I use, and the local university has been doing more and more research on dry farming. They've done blind taste tests and people actually prefer the taste of vegetables that are grown without irrigation.
I have always done this. Funny, I knew this. Even when friends told me " You need to water deeper." I have trained my beloved plants to need less.
You don't train them, they're trained.
He just confirmed what I have been doing for years, my grandma always grew like this, she always told me not to over water, this all makes sense as to why, really good information!
For the wind, and starting seedlings, I brush my hand or arm across the plants, to imitate wind. It makes them stronger before transplanting.
I wonder if you could put a fan in the greenhouse and turn it on for a few minutes every day? Thanks for your tip!
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Genius.
Brushing them with your hand or board works great. Can also use oscillating fan but you have to watch out for drying the seedlings.
I do this to my plant, depriving of water. I learned this from permaculture where plants become hardy and resilient from bugs. 😊 thanks
As ever Huw -really clear, informative advice. And perfect timing with a period of warm weather on it's way for me on the Isle Of Wight. Thanks Huw!
Interesting and very useful, even life changing. In the hot spell I’ve been watering every day and thinking I cannot stay over elsewhere and worried about the water bill.
Hew, and other gardeners, in my grow room I have an oscillating fan on my seedlings at all times. It results in much stronger plants. Also it helps prevent problems with mold if I over water.
How do your watering cans always look so neat? Mine are battered😂
He has the ones he uses everyday and then the ones he uses for videos.
I doubt that he uses watering cans often on a garden that large hence why it is so new
I live in Canada and love you videos so informative . I just can’t stop watching your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with sincerity, I learned so much and plan to use these tips this summer
I guess I've been doing this accidentally for years simply by being sort of forgetful...
The intro sequence was fantastic! Your videos are top notch 💯
Your honesty and your knowledge giving attitude ...will definitely help many unsuccessful farmers and home growers...thank you and God bless you
Huw thank you I have been over watering new to vegetable gardening learning something new everyday so thanks praying for your gardens to be blessed n bountiful
I totally agree with your philosophy. I have heavy clay soil and often have problems it getting too wet. This year I have avoided watering unless absolutely necessary. and right now we have a very warm and dry period, and most plants seem to do very well. Thanks for a nice video 👍.
Clever idea , this year I planted 45 tomatoes.I will definitely apply this method to a few of them to see the outcome. your garden look so green and healthy.
I just LOVE your videos ! As gardener in a botanical garden in south of France, even if ours weathers are quite differents, yours tips are so intelligent and easy to put in practice. Thank you also for your perfect prononciation, i don't need any subtitle because everything is clear and concise. And finally, a HUGE thanks for your tricks and tips, as the gutter or the wood on seeds, it makes the difference as pro-tips. Take care !
Hi Huw, when we get really hot weather, and the leaves wilt, I hold off the watering until the next day because if the plant is reacting to heat and then recovers during the evening, otherwise I'll end up over watering. I use a water meter to check the soil moisture deep by the roots. God bless.
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yep same! it's incredible just how much plants can recover from looking totally wilted and sad
Wise! I over watered my orange tree and all the flowers dropped. It was an incredibly hot summer and we had several fires in the area that made it difficult to see the sun from all the smoke in the air. It lasted a month. I wanted to wash out the smoke and ashes that landed on my garden plants.
They use dry farming methods in India too but in addition to not watering, what they do is make sure the soil is super rich with lots of compost and organic matter to retain water and provide nutrition (mimicing Nature) so they can get through droughts until the moonsoon/rainy season comes.
I live in northern New Mexico, high desert area, and we havent had a real rain since March, so everything is dry as a bone. I have been thinking and not watering as much, it makes sense like you said. But even tho I soaked the area before seeding, there isntt much water below 6". so Im flooding areas every few days, trying to get the water deeper and mulching everything. But even if we do get a good rain (prowling thunder storms), it mostly runs off since the ground is so hard and dry. . Its a real challenge to grow anything but wild sunflowers up here! Sure do love seeing what a real garden looks like, yours is so lush and beautiful!
That's where sub-irrigated planters are really a life-saver! The water is supplied from below so roots still reach deep into the planter. There is less water wasted through soil surface evaporation. Even if the soil forms an upper crust, the bottom portion is still nice and moist!
Hello neighbor! I like direct sowing stuff. You don't need to water deep, just the soil around the seeds needs to stay moist (which can be hard for us in the high desert). I'll cover my seeded area with boards after I water them (like scrap 2x4 or 2x6's). Once they're sprouted, you can take the boards off, but then the hard part is getting the water deep enough to get the plants well established. I've had good success with irrigating my raised beds with drip tubing, and using mulch to reduce water loss. Drip is really good for controlling exactly how much water to give your plants and how often. For plants in the ground, you need a good bowl that you can water and let it soak in deeply. Mulch helps, but some xeric plants don't tolerate bark or wood based mulch (but you can get away with gravel). Monsoon should be coming soon. Hoping for some good rain!
This has been my instinct for a while now, nice to see it articulated so clearly
Thank you so much Tom!
Exactly what I think.
Good comment.
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I learned too with my recent experience 😵
This video compliments the one on mulching to conserve water in the soil. Great job!
Thank you sharing your experience.
It's the only way we will make it.
This was really helpful! My garden has really been struggling this summer and I think a lot of it might be down to overwatering and I had no idea!
Thank you very much for this wonderful information! Watching from Northern Alberta, Canada.
I could not agree with him more. I have been gardening for more than 30 years & I always grow my seeds in the same pot that they will grow & be harvested.
I am not a full time farmer so have no time to garden except on weekends so I use lots of shirt cuts & they do work but I do live in CA where every day is the growing day.
I just like to hear this guy talk. Yes it is helpful information that I've been using but he could read an instructional book or a recipe and I would enjoy it.
I plan to move to Wales one day so I'm preparing myself by watching all your videos. I come from Australia - you can't even water in the day time. I was really concerned about growing in Winter over there. It just doesn't get that cold here. Thanks for your videos, they're a great help.
Thank you, Huw. I value your advice
Love your videos! Very educational and well presented.
In West Texas the Pecos Cantaloupe was grown this way. Irrigation only. They were the best melons always. It is hard now to find these. What you are advocating really works with flavor.
You really notice it with tasteless watery strawberries which have been over-pampered
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I have some strawberries wandering around under fruit trees that get no irrigation. They only make a couple berries per plant each season but they always have exceptional flavor and are very juicy and tender (opposite of the crunchy California mutant strawberries), compared to the real strawberry bed. But I sow carrots in the strawberries. so I have to water them.
Fair play Huw, these videos look seriously professional now! You're definitely giveing Gardner's World a run for their money!
I'm in Auckland, we're in the middle of, ironically, a drought with days of heavy rain. I've been mostly leaving them to survive on their own and they are getting quite strong. Mulch if you can.
Thank you Huw! Great advice as always! Please if you have time one day can you advise on what lettuces and salad green varieties you grow and/or can grow when it's very hot? All my salads are running to seed in the heat and I LOVE summer salad! Thank you!!
Well done for not being "unprecedented". I really appreciate your videos.
I’m pretty new to gardening. I can grow stuff but keeping it going is another thing. It’s because I’m over watering. I have also mulched with heavy straw this year so they are staying super wet. I need this slap on the hand today. Thank you for this video. New subscriber. We have been in the 100s here in utah for almost 4 weeks and are in a serious drought. Overmulching will help but I just need to water less. Thank you so much!
Fantastic information Huw. Thank You ☀️🍓🌼🐝
Loving the camera work in the intro. Another great video!
Here in N.C.,USA,Thanks for your advice on growing veg.I have been a hort. person for 30 yrs growing shrubs,flowers and etc, L grew up on a tobacco farm and done some veg. gardening when i was young and did not enjoy it much.
Loved your video. I noticed you pinched the top off your broad beans, is that to reduce blackfly aphids on the tops? Try letting a celery plant to go to flower nearby. The amount of parasitic wasps that it attracts will deal with them.
Hi Huw, your videos are very good, love all the advice you give on each vegetable 🙂 thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
My pleasure! As always, more to come :)
I'll try that watering schedule on a few plant to compare results. Thanks for sharing the knowledge Huw.
Seeing lots of greens around is very relaxing 💚😍. I'm watering my plants morning and before sunset, or once a day every morning 🙂
Another question. We had a big cloud of Sahara dust striking. It was dull, hot and all my plants were covered with dust. You could see the dust collection in the hairs of the tomatoes. Do you think that will affect the photosynthesis due to the leaves were coated in dust? I waited until it was less dusty and showered them with some fresh water. What's your opinion about it?
Thank you so much for sharing your garden tips 👍🍀🙏
If you are growing in containers, you can "stress" them too. Air circulation from a decent (but not too powerful) fan(s), opening windows often because of the different weather points, wind speeds, etc and so on for air exchanges. Then finally you can encourage root development of frequent enough up potting until final potting/transplanting. Along with slight leaving wet (e.g. water trays NOT left for more than few days at a time) and drying out in between watering might also helps. Won't replace direct sowing but most of us can't direct sow peppers, tomatoes, etc reliably so it's the next best thing.
Thank you SO much!!!! Lovely, just what i was looking for :)
Hi there., Huw. Thanks again for shaking us out of traditional plant care and making us think more carefully about what is going on. Once again, a thoughtful vid. Thanks for helping us to focus what is going on underground. I hope that m watering regime will give us our first real 'harvest meal' of new potatoes and fresh peas in the coming weekend. I'm with you all the way, Huw, but the UK Midlands transition from 'monsoon' to heatwave does not help in gauging water needs. Yet another innovative vid. Thanks ag again - best wishes Paul
Good advice with the seed sowing directly, Huw. I did both myself this year as I had a hectic start with the new plot!
Now that crops are established they get little water from me - just the new transplants get watered until they root down.
Keep 'em coming mate!
Thank you so much Steve! I hope you're keeping well and you're having a great season☺️
As with children... Huw you speak wisdom applicable to all living things.
Thank you for the excellent info.
You should do as Charles downing does and do a comparison on this theory it would be very interesting
That would be super interesting to see
Good idea I’m going to try with a couple squash
Lovely, clear, to-the-point narration. So nice to listen to after so many appalling CZcams videos.
another very useful vlog Huw, thanks!
Quick Q re tomatoes: when should I start pruning/cutting the lower stems?
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I always find my plants start growing so much quicker when i forget to water for a short time. Clear indicator I have been watering too often! :)
Great video Huw..... and boy have I been over watering my tomatoes.....- I've been mean for at least 5 days
Your garden is so green so healthy
Great video! Interesting and informative. Kinda wish I had an undercover area to experiment with tomatoes now! Cheers from Sydney, Aus!
Very nice and TIDY garden !
Thanks for the good advice.
5-6 days without water here in Georgia WILL kill your plants, and it almost doesn't matter what it is. 2 hours in 92 degrees with low humidity can destroy many plants in your garden. My watermelon plant just kicked it even though I watered it early afternoon every day for the first few days, then "stressed" it for a day. My tomatoes, peppers and some other plants were obviously really unhappy. Just be aware of what your conditions are when you choose to stress your plants. This is good advice for early to mid spring but summer in hot places, I wouldn't.
In SC you can go 2-3 days until about July. If it's over 90F you have to keep a close eye on it, though.
@Erin K sounds good. How much topsoil did you put on the straw? I am using a wood chip base that I got from the city, with wood shavings and manure on top. Water soaks in quickly however I am not sure how much the plants can access. Thank you for your suggestion.
I tend to be an over waterer 😕 good advice , il give it a go.....although we get a bit of rain here in Scotland 😆
Great information as always thank you for sharing with us
You are so welcome☺️
Hi Huw. I have add organic material on top of my garden, vegetables...(straw or grass clippings)
And after rain, there is wet in top soil for a week longer, than neighbourhood dig garden without material on top of soil.
Thanks! And have a very nice day! :)
You too Stéphan! :)
Such a beautiful garden.😊
Presently I’m watering two varieties of potatoes, a bunch of corn and onions, carrots, lettuce, strawberries, tomatoes, garlic etc. every other day, and I don’t drown them, I just keep the soil consistently moist. Two medium waterings a week would even suffice. Cheers and thanks for the video!
Thank you Huw.
Excellent video. Thanks.
We have watering restrictions in the summer, even in the interior of lush British Columbia. I don’t mind. It’s a precious resource. And restrictions make us cannier in our use and understanding of water and watering systems. This video gives one much to ponder. 👍🇨🇦 Dec1/2021
Excellent presentation.
I just want your garden then I will think about watering... Amazingly beautiful....👍👍👍
Fantastic videos Huw! Very Informative and therapeutic and so much work involved. I can't believe it's only at 585k subs...come on people let's get Huw to over 1million.
Very helpful. Thank you
Great tips! Thank you! What can I do to get rid of potato bugs?
Trying hanging balcony tomatoes for the first time. Will also try dry-growing them because that sounds wonderful hahaha. Thanks, Huw!!!
I grew those tumbling varieties last year and although they were heavy cropper the flavour snd texture were very poor.. I am sticking to cordon varieties this year
Direct sowing hey. Like the sound of it - good theory and less transplant shock stuff and stronger roots and stronger stems etc. less time spent moving bits around too!
I love to water my garden 2 or 3 times a day and they looks so healthy, but everytime my cherry tomato start turning red 75% of its are splitting maybe because i watered them too much...thanks for the info.
Good to know about the tomatoes... I’ve got four growing and a bunch more in seedling transplants... I have been thinking I should cultivate two more... Taste is my focus... I’d rather have six plants w less yield per plant, than four with more. Plus I live in the desert and I’d like to see if I could collect enough rainwater to grow enough for my household with little to no city water... anything to reduce water usage is another one of my goals... I’m always testing my plants to see how little water I can give them. Great vid. Thanks!
I have relative humidity as low as 20% and almost no shade in my property here in Oregon. I used to water my strawberries twice a day or they would just die right in front of my eyes. LOL You are just lucky and you didn't realize how lucky you are when you made a video like this. LOL LOL
buried my tomatoes about 20-30cm deep this year, that and the wood chip mulch seems to retain water really well.
I see your asparagus bed, looks great. I started mine from seeds and they are looking like yours. Do I need to do anything with them this year or just leave them alone?
Morning, Huw. I was wondering about carrots, etc. I have limited growing space in my garden, which means I usually only get one crop of carrots a year. Is it possible to stagger the growth, so I plant new carrots between more established carrots, so by the time the newer ones have begun to grow, the earlier ones will be ready for harvest to free up space for them? Or would the more mature carrots hinder the chance of the newer batch growing? I've also noticed that you seem to sow a lot of your seeds a lot closer together than most seed packets recommend - yet they still seem to grow well for you. When is the best time to follow these guidelines, and when to bend the rules?
How do you go about crop rotation with Tomatoes when grown in a Poly Tunnel.
so helpful! kinda makes me think about humans too and building resilience during stressful times...
love your channel! i'm a new gardener. just started this year. and you've been helping me so much! thanks so much :)
Cool video, I learned a lot!
There is a further aspect to watering less, that you did not mention, Huw.
I try to harvest most of my seeds myself and by "educating" your vegetables you will be able to select seeds from those plants, that are more draughtresistant.
I never use a hose, only a can and when my larger pond is almost empty I have to decide, which plants get the precious water. Well, it works, normaly there is a puddle left when the rain starts to fill up the buckets, barrels and ponds.
Thank you for sharing
What perfect watering cans.
Hi Huw
is it the same for my peppers and chillis, not watering much? I have them in pots in the greenhouse. They are just starting to form flower buds.
If regular watering of tomato plants is reduced, how do you cope with blossom end rot? Which is normally caused by lack of calcium and/or irregular watering. At the same time if one reduces frequent irrigation, when heavy rain occurs, it leads to fruit cracking, especially in the ripening stage. Thoughts on that?
Mulch and companion planting.
I love to watching your video very much.. Say hi, from Malaysia.