Watering – Every Week or Every Day?

I'm a brand new Mittleider gardener this year, and my garden is doing SO
well!! It is really amazing. I've never had such success. Even my
seasoned Pro gardener Grandma is impressed with my garden. Thanks so much
for everyone's help and expertise.

Here's the question. I was reading the message about watering
tomatoes, and I'm confused. I thought that tomatoes needed deep watering
less often. I've only been watering twice a week, but really deep. So
far it appears to be working pretty well, but then again it hasn't been
all that hot (low to mid 80's most days). So should I be watering every
day? And if so, should I be watering everything every day or just
tomatoes? Are there vegetables that need watering less often?


Traditional watering is for deep watering once a week or thereabouts. I believe
- at least in the West - that it originated with the irrigation turns that were
every 7 or 8 days.

Remember that we are doing "The Poor Man's Hydroponic Method", and that
hydroponic growers obtain about 10 times the yield that a good tractor farmer
gets.

Remember (or learn) that hydroponic growers water something like every 15
minutes, and the fertilizer is in the water! So just consider the yield you
want and water accordingly.

Plants need water at the root zone all the time. If the ground dries out the
plant will spend energy sending its roots further into the ground following the
water. We want the plant using its energy growing fruit.

We recommend you do not let the soil surface dry out, which may even require
watering more often than once per day on very hot days.

An interesting observation about the amount of water required with this method
of gardening: People here in Armenia water by flood irrigation, and not very
often. Our neighbor is the Village Water Master this year, and when he saw our
watering procedures he was amazed! He has informed the entire village not to
deny us water any time we want it, because we use so little. he said "you can
even water with a few buckets!", and another time he said something like "You're
only using a drinking glass!"

Water every day.