The Value of Not Watering Your Plants

An experienced gardener knows the value of not watering their tomatoes. Well, there's a little more to it, but that's the headline.

Suppose you go to the nursery in the spring and get a tomato seedling. You plant it in the ground in some good soil. Maybe you mulch it to keep down the weeds. Now, you need to make sure it's watered. But you shouldn't necessarily water it every day.

Instead, once it is established, you wean it down to a bit over an inch of water a week (depending on the conditions). Instead of watering every day, you wait. Maybe one…