How to water your new plants
Newly planted shrubs and trees require more water than those planted more than a year ago. If you’d like to see your plants [and trees] survive, we suggest the following:
During the first growing season, a small shrub requires approximately 4 to 6 gallons of water per week. Large shrubs will need as much as 10 gallons of water weekly. When in drought conditions, these watering rates should be slightly raised and properly timed. We suggest watering either early in the morning, or late in the evening, to avoid scorching the plant.
New plants will benefit – and grow – more if watered slowly, for longer periods of time, than if watered quickly for short periods of time. We suggest you turn your hose on to a “little more than a trickle,” and let it run around the base of the shrub – or tree – for one half to one hour daily (if legally able to do so). For those of you who usually have summer watering restrictions, we suggest the same watering rate but for one to two hours when permitted.
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William Quinn and Sons, Inc.
3860 W. 127th St.
Alsip, IL 60803
Phone: 708-389-8119
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