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My Finger Feels Cool/Cold when I stick it in the soil--is it wet?
Comments (2)Moist soils feel cooler when you stick your finger in them because moisture evaporating from the soil's surface actually cools the soil, so it WILL be cooler than room temp when it's moist. Your finger feels cooler because it's moist when you withdraw it, sand the moisture evaporating from your finger makes it feel cooler - like when you step out of a shower when you're wet. Water on an 'as needed' basis, not on a schedule, for best results. Soils begin to feel dry to the touch when they still have about 40% moisture content. Plants can usually extract moisture from soils until the moisture content is 25-30%, some plants even lower than that, so you have a 10-15% built in cush, even after soils feel dry. You're best served to water about the time the soil feels dry to you, as far as you can stick your finger into the soil. Better still, is to use a sharpened dowel and insert that deep into the soil mass. If it comes out cool/dirty - no need to water. If your plants are small, hefting the pot can be a useful way to gauge moisture content. Use some discretion, because even though the plants can extract moisture down to the 25-30% moisture content level, bark/peat-based soils become hydrophobic (difficult to rewet) as they pass below about 30% moisture content. Al...See Morecooling greenhouse with wet pad
Comments (15)Cindy, follow the link below to view my pads. Mine is bit more complicated than needed since I have it in two sections around the door. One pump with the supply line split to feed both sides. The two supply tanks are connected and being on the same level, they still filled with one automatice float valve. The pump is a 300 GPH@5feet of lift. You can see in the photo it is a small pump. Sits right on the bottom of the tank. The pads are each one foot wide and three feet high. I have eight for my house. Yours wouldn't need that many being a smaller house. You should be able to get by with half that. They are Glacier-Cor pads from IGC:http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/ The frame is simple as you can see in the photo. A vinyl gutter from Lowes rest on the bottom of the frame. A piece of benchtop in the gutter keeps the pads out of the return flow of water. The water distribution line is adjustable with the valve at the top. Small holes drilled about 2 inches apart down the PVC pipe provide the flow. Holes at the top so the holes will be less likely to clog. The union on the pipe allows you to rotate the pipe to center the flow over the pads. I have mine barely squirting up out the holes. You want the pads moist but not a flowing wall of water seen cascading down. The sides and top of the frame are sealed with plastic to keep the air from slipping around the pads. Once every three weeks, I add Physan 20 at their recommended rate to keep algae from developing. A small greenhouse is hard to cool that way since the short space the moist air is moving across does not give it much time to evaporate and provide the needed cooling. Someone else may have experience as to what to expect from your size. Another consideration is the fan size you have. Assuming it now provides the recommended exchange of air once every 60-90 seconds, it should work ok. Hope I've given you some ideas on how to design a simple pad system. Good Luck! Jerry Here is a link that might be useful: My cooling system...See MoreCool wet spring in north central Texas: winners
Comments (30)Oh, dear, I just found this thread and I hope I'm in time to plead for a reprieve for Martha Gonzales! Here's my story: I have Martha Gonzales, Mrs. Dudley Cross, Belinda's Dream, an unknown apricot/cream Austin that came with the house, and Francis Dubrieul planted together. Francis got blackspot and dropped every leaf, with the Austin and (gasp!) Martha G. following suit almost immediately. MDC got a few spotted leaves on the side next to the defoliated plants, but on the opposite side she remained disease free! BD, on the other side, lost a few lower leaves but she's already regrown. But here's the kicker: I have a couple of other Martha G.s across the yard from the naked one, and they're both fine! Furthermore, my second MDC, about 15 feet away from the diseased roses, has no trace of disease. Another bed across the way has SDLM, SDSA, original Gruss, and Felicia. Gruss usually loses half his leaves, but he and all his bedmates have all their leaves. It seems to me that whatever Francis had this year was something abnormally bad that his neighboring roses, normally resistant, couldn't cope with. But the good news was that it spread only to immediate neighbors but went no further. Now Martha and UNK Austin are growing new leaves, but I think I have to get rid of Francis. He's still nothing but sticks....See MoreWell all our cool, wet, weather had to be good for something.
Comments (6)Oh Annette! That is so beautiful. All the purple-lilac colors in the Fuchsia flowers and your house create a cool and welcoming place. Can I come sit under your pergola with you? It is just gorgeous! That's what I want. I just love all those Fuchsia baskets. That is dazzling! What else do you have growing around that area and along the path to your house? The temps here today were only in the low 80s, but it was very humid and muggy, so it felt hotter than it actually was. Then the clouds rolled in - huge, billowing, dark thunder heads that boiled up high into the atmosphere. I love watching them build like that. The sky grew very dark, like dusk, and it suddenly poured down heavy and hard. Wow! Glad I set those five gallon buckets out on the patio to catch some of that rain. I use it to water my house plants. Beautiful image. Post more, if you please? ~Annie...See Morearcy_gw
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