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I have a question about watering and you two should know and you may think it’s silly for me to ask.

I went out to water, remember I have containers and not plants in the ground. The two containers that have a watering hole on each side down close to the bottom, water the plants from the bottom up. When they were baby plants, it said to water them from the top until their roots grew more, so I did that as well as put water in the bottom because that space is not supposed to get dry. I don’t water from the top anymore. The soil at the top of those containers was not dry so I did nothing except make sure the bottom space was full of water.

The rest of the plants are in grow bags, and the planter in the garden has the walking onions and there are some flower seeds I dropped on the actual garden dirt, so those flowers are the only plants actually in ground dirt.

Now, how dry do you let the potting soil the plants are in get, before you water? I’ve been sticking a finger about half an inch into the soil and if that is dry, I water the plant and have no idea how much I’m putting in. That may be wrong and that’s why I’m asking. I don’t want to water log the plant.

I also have that sesame flower plant in a large pottery pot and yesterday, it’s leaves were drooping, so I put water in the pot and today the plant is looking normal. I don’t know how much water I put in there, I just used the hose and put some in there.

I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to watering. The potting soil in the five tomato plants in 5 gal. grow bags, seemed dry to me when I put my finger 1/2 inch into the soil, so I watered them and that was using the hose and putting probably an inch of water in the top of the bag. I don’t know if that was enough or too much. Water does come out of the bags on the side and bottom so that water doesn’t stand in the bottom of those bags.

If you have developed your way of knowing about how to water, I’d like to know it. Even if you have a watering drip system, you are still limiting that water some how to know when it is enough.