Fertilizing and Watering
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Subject: How deep does your water go
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Water (John) |
Midway City, California
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How deep does your water go and how do you know this? What tool/instrument do you use to determine the depth of moist soil?
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6/7/2005 11:43:14 AM
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Mr. Orange |
Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany
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"What tool/instrument do you use to determine the depth of moist soil?" - a 5" wide and 20" deep hole in the middle of the patch drilled down with a soil drill. It is covered with a 6" diameter round plate that is only removed in order to grab down with your arm to feel how moist the soil is.
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6/7/2005 11:58:28 AM
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crammed |
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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Hey, why buy a tool to measure moisture when you've got ten of them at the end of your arm for free :-)
Seriously, though, moisture meters aren't very expensive, are they? But, I doubt most of them go any deeper than six or ten inches. Maybe there are more expensive ones that go deeper and are more accurate, digital etc.
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6/7/2005 4:48:50 PM
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docgipe |
Montoursville, PA
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I have about a twelve inch piece of PVC Sch.40 which I can pull to go down in for a dampness check. Pull pipe, check and return pipe to hole. Works fine.
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6/7/2005 6:01:21 PM
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Tremor |
Ctpumpkin@optonline.net
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Standard soil sampling probe.
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6/7/2005 9:25:43 PM
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Wyecomber |
Canada
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I have a soil moisture tool I bought pretty cheaply from Ebay last spring, works very well, I checked my soil today its been in the 80-90's for the past 2 weeks and ive ONLY watered once and that was a week ago, i checked moisture today first 3 " were dry but as soon as i got down to the 6-7" mark is was full of moisture.
Dave
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6/8/2005 3:59:43 AM
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