It's the day before Christmas Eve and we haven't had winter conditions yet. Overnight gets down to just below freezing some nights, but not for long, and the days have been consistently in the 50s. This afternoon it's 60°.
But dry. No precipitation.
So I watered again. I had watered everything on the 14th, and this is just two weeks later.
In winter a good soaking should be only once a month on a day when temperatures are above 50° but this unbroken mild weather is really more like a long Autumn and my plants need to go into real winter hydrated.
I wonder if I watered enough last winter.
We had a cool spring, and nothing came up or grew very well. Rain in the summer helped, but perhaps my plants got a slow start because they had struggled in too dry winter conditions?
I got a couple new watering nozzles, but couldn't find the articulated Gilmour ones I like. So I got these Cytheria brand nozzles with a fixed head, and I don't like them at all.
They don't swivel to different positions and I don't like the thumb control. But they work well enough.