Operating and maintaining drip irrigation systems is not the most exciting aspect of Flagstaff gardening. However, their use is essential in keeping your garden flourishing, especially in a scant monsoon season like we are having this year. In fact, the number one reason for most plant problems in Flagstaff is related to water.

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a plant living in a garden without an irrigation system. As you start to wake up in March/April with new growth, you are watered by snow melt through April and perhaps a little into May (as long as it has been a good snow year). However, as you really get growing with the warm days of May and June the snow melt in the soil quickly evaporates leaving not enough moisture to sustain your spring flush of growth. Once the hot and

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