Tired of standing next to your planting beds, garden hose in hand? Concerned about getting too much water where you don’t need it and not enough where you do? The solution is simple: install drip ...

Water trickles out of a tiny black plastic tube and flows onto a spot near a young banana plant. The set-up looks simple, but it works with precision. The tube delivers just the right amount of water, ...

TI employee Dave Smith invented a simple drip irrigation system for his chili plants. (Sheryl Jean/The Dallas Morning News) Dave Smith loves chili peppers. "It was easy to grow them in England," the ...