How to choose the right Watering Can for your garden

This article intends to give useful tips to choose the right watering can, both for indoors and outdoors.
The main variables to consider when buying a watering can are size, capacity and style.
The rest of the features to bear in mind are style, product quality if we want it to last long and optional removable sprayhead.

Plastic or metal watering can?

When choosing a metal watering can you will obtain a more durability, metal watering cans resist much better than the rest, they are heavier and more expensive.
In case you need a plastic watering can its main advantages are: they are lighter and cheaper, but their life span ranges bewteen 5 and 10 years. You must never expose a plastic watering can to direct sunlight.

Capacity and Size

Take into consideration how much water you can carry, buy more than one if you don't want to come and go many times.
Long spouted or Short Spouted Watering Can?, if you want to reach hidden areas in your garden, avoiding damaging the leaves or yourself, then the long sprouted watering can fits right. Short sprouted are designed for general gardening jobs, very suitable for spraying pots or watering already grown plants.

Besides, if you are planning to use a fertiliser or weed killer, then it's strongly recommended to buy a cheap plastic watering can for that use only, to avoid the risk of contamination.

How to spray correctly with a watering can

The sprayhead should be looking upwards, while you handle correctly the angle of the can, otherwise the water will start running the brass. In case there is a larger area the sprayhead should be pointing the ground. It's advisable to buy watering cans which sprayheads can be replaced, being these element the one that suffers the most the intensive use.
Always check the spout with a needle or a cane to verify if it's blocked.

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Indoor plant watering tips

One of the main factors to keep indoor plants healthy it’s watering. Nevertheless, this is a difficult task of carrying out, since there are to consider multiple factors like, for example, if they are outside or interior plants. In order to avoid negative results on our plants, it’s advisable to know the amount water that these require, as well as the right moment and place to make this vital work.
Each plant, depending on the species, needs a greater or smaller amount of water, reason why it’s convenient to inquire at the purchase place to know what the water frequency should and what is the right amount of water it needs. It is not advisable to use an automatic watering system for indoor plants, before doing that, it’s advisable to review the soil state and to verify its humidity. In case that it conserves a small humidity degree, it is not necessary to exceed in the irrigation, since this can cause problems in the health of the plant. The optimal thing is to provide the necessary water and not to return to do it until the Earth is dry, since to do it of a way it frequents and in small amounts it is detrimental
Nevertheless, there are certain general rules that should be known to apply the exact amount of water necessary.. Then, it’s advisable to water more often the young plants or at growing stage, the ones that are located in a warm place inside the house, and those of tiny leaves. Obviously, the amount of water should be increased during the summer. On the other hand, those plants which don’t have flowers, have strong and thick leaves or those which are in soils that keep humidity for a longer period of time. An automatic plant watering system it's never recommended in these cases.

The watering timer

The best time of the day to do the watering for indoor plants is during the morning, so the plant has the rest of the day to absorb. If the watering takes place during the night, it’s possible that the plant stays too much time with a high humidity level, due to the lack of evaporation. In case the plant it’s in a very warm place inside the ouse, we must take care that the leaves stay wet during the morning. If you pulverize the leaves during the evening, this could allow fungus to grow. The plants that are in pots can be watered in two different ways. The first consist in watering right over the soil surface, while the second is putting the pot over a dish that contains water. Most experts agree that the best method of watering is to poor water all over the soil surface, using the “raining method”. The water that the plant doesn’t need will go to the dish that below the pot. It’s convenient to remove the water in the dish before an hour after the watering, because during this time the plant will have already absorb all the water it needs.
We must pay attention to the importance of pulverizing the leaves, in order to humidify them. During the winter, this task should be made in a daily basis, to avoid the damage that the heating system could do to the. We should use water at room temperature.

Hope these watering indoor plants tips were useful. In further posts I will detail the several watering tools we can find and other plant watering systems.