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Rain Gauge In Garden
I think a decent rain gauge would be a very useful gardening tool. I plan to put one right where my irrigation system (soaker hoses) begin. With the rain gauge, I can keep a log of the rain we get each week and determine how long to water my vegetables using the soaker hoses. I'd like to see my garden have between 1" to 1 1/2" of water a week. I not a very experienced gardener but I want to try and do it the right way. I been putting a lot of money into equipment and doing all the research I can on every aspect of home vegetable gardening. My neighbors on both sides of my property also have vegetable gardens BUT they are unwilling to invest hardly any money or time in their gardens. It sure does have a negative effect on the crops they grow! I had the one neighbor coming over to my house last summer asking if he could buy a few tomatoes from me. He put out a dozen tomato plants of his own for just him and his wife. I said: NO, you can't buy any but just help yourself to all you want! I'm a very firm believer that you only get out of anything in life what your willing to invest in it. If your going to have a garden, then invest time and money in it and do it the right way. I'm in this fine discuss group because I'm quite new to gardening but I want to learn from others and enjoy getting their opinions on all aspects of gardening Thanks for sharing your experience with soaker hoses. Happy Gardening............ Rich I like this a lot. \ Bill Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA I truly liked this post as well and am now going to purchase a good rain gauge. The lay out of my yard/gardens requires sprinklers. In the past I have tried to visually decide how much was enough. With a gauge, I'll know exactly how much water my yard n flower n berry beds are gettting. Automatic sprinklers are on a timer (a timer is what makes them automatic), don't need any stinkin' rain gauge... folks with an automatic sprinkler system use a rain sensor gauge, a simple inexpensive gizmo wired to the sprinkler timer that detects a preset amount of rain fall that when reached will prevent the sprinkers from sprinkling. With manual sprinkers that one moves about the most accurate rain gauge for detecting the correct wetness for a particular area is to give it the "finger". Decide now, yoose wanna be the Jolly Green Giant or you wanna be Big Al Roker. LOL my land is all of 75' x 100' and I utilize every inch of it. It's just me these days but I sure won't turn down anyone wanting to install automatic sprinkers and fancy timers! Watering by eye can be rewarding in many ways....it keeps me close to Mother Earth and I can see what needs more of this and less of that. And I've always wanted a rain gauge and by golly I'm gonna get one! I know what I want to be LOL so I think it's you who needs to decide who you are. Donna in WA zone 8-9 with a whole week of 28 degrees in the morning and close to 60 degrees come closing time. Flowers will just have to wait before they get outside.....then they can take root on one end as the other end is stretching with all it's might to reach the Son. Kinda like some of us'ns. |
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Rain Gauge In Garden
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:07:01 -0800, "Lelandite" wrote:
I think a decent rain gauge would be a very useful gardening tool. I plan to put one right where my irrigation system (soaker hoses) begin. With the rain gauge, I can keep a log of the rain we get each week and determine how long to water my vegetables using the soaker hoses. I'd like to see my garden have between 1" to 1 1/2" of water a week. I not a very experienced gardener but I want to try and do it the right way. I been putting a lot of money into equipment and doing all the research I can on every aspect of home vegetable gardening. My neighbors on both sides of my property also have vegetable gardens BUT they are unwilling to invest hardly any money or time in their gardens. It sure does have a negative effect on the crops they grow! I had the one neighbor coming over to my house last summer asking if he could buy a few tomatoes from me. He put out a dozen tomato plants of his own for just him and his wife. I said: NO, you can't buy any but just help yourself to all you want! I'm a very firm believer that you only get out of anything in life what your willing to invest in it. If your going to have a garden, then invest time and money in it and do it the right way. I'm in this fine discuss group because I'm quite new to gardening but I want to learn from others and enjoy getting their opinions on all aspects of gardening Thanks for sharing your experience with soaker hoses. Happy Gardening............ Rich I like this a lot. \ Bill Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA I truly liked this post as well and am now going to purchase a good rain gauge. The lay out of my yard/gardens requires sprinklers. In the past I have tried to visually decide how much was enough. With a gauge, I'll know exactly how much water my yard n flower n berry beds are gettting. Automatic sprinklers are on a timer (a timer is what makes them automatic), don't need any stinkin' rain gauge... folks with an automatic sprinkler system use a rain sensor gauge, a simple inexpensive gizmo wired to the sprinkler timer that detects a preset amount of rain fall that when reached will prevent the sprinkers from sprinkling. With manual sprinkers that one moves about the most accurate rain gauge for detecting the correct wetness for a particular area is to give it the "finger". Decide now, yoose wanna be the Jolly Green Giant or you wanna be Big Al Roker. LOL my land is all of 75' x 100' and I utilize every inch of it. It's just me these days but I sure won't turn down anyone wanting to install automatic sprinkers and fancy timers! Watering by eye can be rewarding in many ways....it keeps me close to Mother Earth and I can see what needs more of this and less of that. And I've always wanted a rain gauge and by golly I'm gonna get one! How many inches of rain has already fallen may be an interesting bit of trivia but has absolutely no value for gardening... far more important is how much moisture is contained in ones soil... a soil moistness sensor is a much more useful/practical device. Thre are many in all price ranges... this thingie looks interesting: http://www.amazon.com/PlantSense-100...6959271&sr=1-1 |
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Rain Gauge In Garden
brooklyn1 wrote:
How many inches of rain has already fallen may be an interesting bit of trivia but has absolutely no value for gardening... It must be very comforting to live in such a familiar little place where one can be so certain of everything that one can make ex cathedra declarations. What of those who live somewhere else? There are climates, soils and people's circumstances that you know nothing of so how about allowing that there can be different approaches to a problem. David |
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