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Set a schedule.
As you’ve learned in previous pages, gardening can be an immensely rewarding hobby—benefiting your health and well-being in countless ways. But it does demand work and patience.
Determine when you’ll be able to water, trim, weed, feed, address pests, and harvest, and make yourself a schedule that you’ll stick with so you can give your garden the attention it requires. If your career or family life keep you busy, you may want to stick to crops that are less needy or consider setting up an automatic watering system; there are affordable options available that can give you peace of mind.
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When it comes to convenience and efficiency, drip irrigation is hard to beat. It delivers precisely the amount of water needed and, when controlled by a timer, takes much of the work and worry out of gardening. Kits are available in garden stores and online, and YouTube video tutorials can teach you how to set up and maintain your system.
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