It’s time for us to do a bit of a deep dive into watering the nursery! Let’s first discuss a quality of life tool of choice, a small pressure sprayer! This will save your hands and make watering a breeze!
These pressure sprayers can be found at big box stores, typically for around 10 bucks. There’s big ones and small ones, but we like these small 56 ounce units as they’re easy to lug around the nursery.
Compared to a typical squeeze bottle, these things are a dream to use. They can lay down a lot of water, fast, but also can create a lovely spray pattern that’s gentle on young seedlings. They’re the perfect tool for watering young seedlings, prior to transplanting.
We’ve kept ours running for many years and they’re easy to service. Inside the spray head, there’s a small o-ring that can be re-lubricated with food safe grease such as keg lube. We service them every couple years, allowing them to go for a decade or more.
These days, we have two. One for water, the other for lightly fertilized water. We’ll get more into our nursery fertilization strategies later, but the point is that they’re flexible for both watering and foliar feeding.
To us, these are an indispensable tool in the indoor nursery that we simply cannot live without! It makes a tedious job easy and fast, saving us gobs of time that is well worth the low price.
We’ll discuss achieving the right amounts of water tomorrow, because a common thing newer gardeners deal with is either underestimating or overestimating how much water is needed. Water is essential not just for germination, but continually once that seed germinates.
