How Dry Is Your Soil? Know When to Water?
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First Garden too wet: how quick does your soil dry out?
Comments (14)So just to give you an idea of how ever-so-slightly obsessive I/we are being with this, we have not only been tarping the area when it rains, but we post-hole dug a couple of 'wells' and have been using the old pumps from our hydroponics setup to pump out some of the water. From Garden Pictures Note the water table, right after all the rain, only about an inch down! On the plus side, digging down 3ft or so gave me a good idea of my soil strata - after about a foot and a half I hit some clay that looked like I could sit down and throw a terra-cotta pot on the spot. But up until that point, it was (decreasingly) nice and dark brown and more crumbly. So I think my dirt is pretty good :) Hopefully adding my compost and raising te rows as much as possible will improve the drainage. We're also eventually planning on putting a dry streambed through the backyard. But as for the good news - after only 24 hours or so without water falling from the sky, the water table receded to about 5-6 inches down. Progress! Thanks for the advice, everybody - still don't know when I'll be able to start working out there, but hopefully it will be soon, as I have some little ones anxiously waiting! From Garden Pictures ~Emily...See MoreYou know your plants are dry when....
Comments (8)When you hear snap, crackle, pop after you give a little water. When your soil is so dry that the weeds all die. When your soil is hydrophobic. You give some water, but see it promptly run out of the bottom of the pot, yet the soil is still dry dry dry. When it was last year, no, maybe the year before, when you last remember giving your plants some water. Brad...See MoreHow to 'Know' When It Is Time To Water
Comments (4)Susan, I like that...."Susanet". LOL I wish I could just not water, but then I know that everything would likely die, and I am not going to let 10 years of planting go down the drain. And, you know, everything I plant anymore is either native or incredibly well adapted. Anything that I planted that didn't make it through the 2005-06 drought/wildfires was replaced with native stuff. I do have some small prickly pear cactus plants that sprouted this fall. They have a love-hate relationship with our climate. When it is dry here, they sprout and grow for a few years. Then, when a really rainy year like 2004 rolls around, they drown/rot/die. And so it goes.... It is hot and dry today, and I guess it will be hotter and drier tomorrow. Then, here comes another cold front..... Dawn...See MoreHow to Water When Soil is Completely Dry
Comments (17)Floorwalker, First this is Sansevieria trifasciata Laurentii. What works for this one will kill most of the cultivars. It needs a more faster draining soil. I like to drench my plants once every few months in summer but come winter, just a little at the bottom tray and never enough to let it set in water 10 minuets after watering. Winter months maybe once every 2 months and just a little. But it also depends on how hot and sunny your indoors are going to be. I had this kind when I first got started in plants and they survived all the abuse I thru at them. Had them for over 40 years....See Morestockergal
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