Xenacrockett said:
John raises a good point in this era of shrinking water sources everywhere.
72% of overhead irrigation water is lost to evaporation. Misting would likely loose even more.
Plus this is putting lots of water on plants for fungus to grow.
For my own purposes, I'm doing a water set up using flex hose with holes put where needed, but will not spray on plants.
Also lots of mulching and adding of organic material.
I know we don't lose 72% of the water to evaporation with our sprinklers, there is just no way. We would have to water each area for hours to get everything saturated if this was the case. I've tried other ways to water and they don't work as well. I've done it by hand (would take me 2 full days to actually get it water properly) and I've tried drip hoses (don't last one full season), I've made drip lines from PVC but since we use pine bark for our snoring medium it does not saturate the area but goes right through the bark where the holes are). Plus 50% of our plants are in pots and overhead watering is the only way to get them watered good.
During non-bloom season we water early in the morning so nothing stays wet very long for it to cause issues. Even watering early evening they don't. The plants stay wetter for longer from the natural moisture here than when we water.
