A few hours each week spent outdoors nurturing fruits, flowers and vegetables can provide exercise, stress reduction, vitamin D and a better diet.

A few hours spent outdoors nurturing a garden weekly provides physical exercise, stress reduction, vitamin D and more ...

(Jessica Damiano via AP) It’s no fun lugging heavy watering cans to and from a faraway spigot, so plant your garden near a ...

It’s no fun lugging heavy watering cans to and from a faraway spigot, so plant your garden near a water source. Avoid overhead watering. Drip irrigation ... Using a timer will automate the ...

This May 26, 2023, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows a drip-irrigation soaker hose set in place over the soil in a small raised-garden bed ... Using a timer will automate the process.

Watering raised garden beds with these methods ... The good news is that drip irrigation lines can be fully automated with a timer, so you can water your raised beds consistently and at the ...

It’s no fun lugging heavy watering cans to and from a faraway spigot, so plant your garden near a water source. Avoid overhead watering. Drip irrigation ... Using a timer will automate the ...

If you install a timer to this system, it allows you to control watering exactly, which is ideal for tailoring the watering schedule to your plants' specific needs. The drip irrigation system is ...