Simply drill a small hole in the bottom of a 5-gallon bucket before filling it with water and placing it next to your tree trunk. As with the watering bags, the water will be released slowly ...

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Weather conditions and seasons. In hot, dry or windy weather, water more frequently. Trees will need more water in summer due ...

Trees larger than two inches in diameter need even more water; measure the tree's diameter six inches above the ground and add 10 more gallons per inch, she said.

With a smaller specimen or newly planted tree, use an irrigation bag (a large plastic bag with holes in the bottom) or a 5-gallon plastic bucket with a 1/8-inch hole drilled at the bottom.

This is a bag that wraps around the tree’s trunk and, when filled with water, allows the water to slowly seep into the root zone. Use any of these techniques during hot weather whenever seven to ...

And the water bags you put up around the trunks of trees become almost a joke. There are virtually none of the small active roots up in that area. Again, those roots are way out around the outer ...