If watering by hand, using a watering can or garden hose can be time-consuming and inefficient, and so many gardeners turn to sprinklers, drip irrigation, and soaker hoses to make life easier.

Homeowners and professional gardeners are turning to low volume drip irrigation as a solution for keeping weeds, diseases, garden pests, scorching heat and high water bills at bay this summer.

Since the last major drought in the 1970s, drip irrigation has evolved in many ways. There are now many new and improved products that are more effective and easier for the novice to use.

Many garden sites suggest another good reason for avoiding watering during the afternoons—as water on the leaves could strengthen the sun's rays with a prism-like effect and cause sunburn or damage.

Overwatering is a common mistake when plants start to droop in summer heat. Find out the right way to keep your soil moist during summer scorchers.

Drip irrigation is vastly different from automatic sprinkler systems, which saturate entire lawns and gardens by spraying water on them from above. This practice is very wasteful of water.

Drip systems are suitable for uneven fields where other irrigation systems are inefficient because certain parts of the field have excessive infiltration, water puddling, or runoff.

You can keep up with it — and reap other benefits — with an alternative method of watering called drip, or trickle, irrigation. The essence of drip irrigation is simply a plastic pipe laid in ...

There are some exceptions to this rule, however, and with some parts of the U.S. facing drought conditions, ... and need a deep drip watering occasionally, particularly in late summer.

LOS ANGELES — Water officials on Monday lifted a temporary ban on outdoor watering in parts of Los Angeles County after emergency repairs were completed on a pipeline that brings Co… ...