Northeast Gardening: How much is too much?, 0 by gotpups

gotpups wrote:
One year after moving from the BIG city to beautiful Bethlehem, Pa, my back yard- a veritable wasteland of dust and clay and used unmentionable person products -has become a garden fairyland..
The Gods must have been with me because I haven't a clue what I am doing.
My question is about watering.
I tend to water like crazy..
The (tested) soil is now yummy and deep and full of huge worms.
No matter how much I water there is never any 'standing'..
Whatever I stick in the ground grows and thrives.
But alas, someone gave me the heebe-jeebies about watering too much, and now I am pertwitzed.
There are a couple of things that need less water, Iris and Russian sage and sedums, for instance, which are doing splendidly.
And I do not have anything that is uncommon or picky, I think, and no annuals or roses..
So what would be the signs that I am overwatering?
Is it possible that one morning I will wake up and everything will be rotted and dead and reeking of failure?
This seems to be so intuitive, but MY intuition has taken a cab to the airport..

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