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Last year I started growing some asparagus and an artichoke in my little front garden, I was delighted to discover unless it was ridiculously hot I could get away with watering as little as once a week! By contrast not last summer but the scorcher the year before I found my self watering some pots (toms in particular) as often as twice a day. It's also quite devastating to notice that the lost wa…