OK, probably not the most substantial scoop you've ever read, but for the sake of the poor plants, here we go.....
You've lost your watering pot so now you are simply dumping gallons of water on your plants knocking the beegizzles out of them. It is a botanical nightmare for your garden crop and the plants are crying.
Don't beat them down any more. Here's a way to gently water your plants without a watering pot.
Please checkout my other (much more significant ;-) TurtleDog scoops.

All you ever need to know about growing dahlias to produce fabulous blooms that will be the envy of your neighborhood, from the author of the Treetops and Tidepools series, and You Can't Have Too Many Boston Terriers, and multiple gardening articles.

It gives very similar tools to FarmVille (a game I'm going to assume you all play or have played at some point), but tosses some fun new ideas into the mix including the need to water your crops, the ability to fertilize those crops, and your stamina bar. Basically, it's the same idea but you need to log on far more often to keep your account running.