4 Well Aware tips for watering your summer garden

Summer weather is coming! Here are water-saving tips with resources for healthy plants and groundwater basins:

🌿Plant native, water-wise, fire-wise landscaping plants.

🌻Schedule a free Garden Sense consultation and have a Sonoma County Master Gardener help you find the right plants for your space.

💦Use the water more than once with graywater and rainwater systems to stretch your water resources.

🕗Water the wise way by using the Irrigation Scheduling Tool to take the guess work out of scheduling your irrigation timer.
💧 Water between midnight and 6 a.m. for less water loss due to evaporation and wind.
💧 Encourage strong roots through deep watering by scheduling your timer for two start times with shorter watering run times.
💧 Install drip irrigation or hand water with a shutoff nozzle to deliver water directly to plant roots.
💧 Check your irrigation timer batteries! Power outages can restart them causing them to go into water wasting default settings.
💧 Check regularly for leaks and broken heads which can waste gallons of water.

Check out the Well Aware webpage for more do-it-yourself guides and free resources.