Re: Re: Moisture sensor

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - I don't mean to rely only on the Met, just wondering how
accurate a
sensor is needed. Although judging from some of these commercial systems,
professional grade grass ala golf course can benefit from the accuracy :-)

My usual sin is to kill plants by over-watering.... but I guess most
micro-irrigation is actually a pretty slow wetting.

Cheers,

David

On 4/16/07, lexfordparc <paul@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I was thinking the same thing about taking one of the probe type
units
> to bits and seeing what was inside.
>
> Your point about raining straight after irrigation is also very valid,
> but even a Met forecast isn't going to tell you the local condition of
> your soil at depth. For example because I am on Weald clay currently
> the top of my garden is bone dry and cracking, whereas the bottom of
> the slope closest to the house is like a marsh.
>
> I would just like to make sure my ornamental plants and newly laid box
> hedge don't die due to lack of water. Watering by hose would take
hours
> and once clay is dry it is a bitch to re-wet.
>
> Paul
>
>
>


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