In this video, I explain how watering your garden beds and container plants with ollas or clay pots can save water. Plus, I ...

I will admit I scroll social media as much as the next person. However, my feeds are garden related. I saw a few posts about tips and tricks to keep vegetable gardens watered during dry conditions.

Answer: Yes; good idea! One of my favorite irrigation mantras is “low and slow,” meaning we want water to percolate deeply. In order to do that, it needs to be applied slowly so it has a chance to ...

Garden ollas have been used for thousands of years as an efficient way to water plants. They are capable of watering plants for days and even today can be used to take some of the challenge out of ...

(WKOW) — Conserve water, grow a more productive garden and take the guesswork out of watering your plants with clay pot irrigation also known as Olla irrigation. You can purchase Olla pots from a ...

In last week’s Gardening for You column (July 12) were some water principles to consider for optimizing growth and development of crop plants. In today’s column is a nifty water delivery system that ...

Ollas are a low-tech way to keep plants watered. The unglazed clay pots are buried in the ground and filled with water. The water seeps through into the surrounding soil. (Dripping Springs Olla) A ...

After day upon day of watering the small community garden at Manchaca United Methodist Church, Bill Palecek told himself there had to be a better way. "I was out here every day or every other day ...

Olla is an ancient irrigation method that uses unglazed, porous clay pots buried within the root zones of plants. Water poured into the exposed necks of the pots (or pitchers) naturally seeps into the ...

VISITORS DROPPING by Cee Cee Kelley’s El Paso home might admire the sparkling, jeweled clay tops sitting decoratively amid several of her potted plants. But they should take more notice if they’re ...

You could say, depending on whom you talked to, that gardening hasn’t changed much over the years. After all, we’re still clipping the boxwoods the way Pliny the Younger did in 62. That’s A.D. 62. And ...