I always watered my vegetable garden at night during heatwaves: the morning I lifted the tomato leaves, I understood what the wet foliage had been breeding for weeks
Watering your vegetable garden at night during a heatwave seems logical—until you lift the tomato leaves and discover early blight thriving in the damp foliage. The real enemy isn’t night watering itself, but wet leaves that create the perfect breeding ground for fungal spores. A simple schedule shift transforms this common gardening mistake into a thriving harvest.