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Watch your garden’s water needs as warm, dry conditions settle in
Warm, warm, warm, dry, dry. This is our second La Nina year in a row, which means this warm, dry weather will continue at least through early spring. Normally, we’d turn the irrigation off now, but unfortunately, not this year. Irrigation Here’s the dilemma: The warm, dry weather means we need to water more often than in a “normal” year. Drought means there’s less water available. What to do? Switch to inline drip irrigation. Inline drip is basically long flexible tubing with emitters embedded inside the lines. Lay it out in a grid on the surface of every garden bed so each bed gets wetted evenly and water penetrates down…