University Project - Survey Required Please Help
Hi Guys,
My name is Matt Oakley and I am a final year Product design Engineer at Loughborough University. I am currently starting a project to design a product, which aides plant watering. I need some customer focused research and would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time. I have setup a web based survey, which takes only a few minutes and is very simple. It can be found at the folowing address: Market Research - Product Template Survey I hope you can help. Thanks in advance, Matt |
University Project - Survey Required Please Help
Matt_UniStudent wrote:
Hi Guys, My name is Matt Oakley and I am a final year Product design Engineer at Loughborough University. I am currently starting a project to design a product, which aides plant watering. I need some customer focused research and would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time. I have setup a web based survey, which takes only a few minutes and is very simple. It can be found at the folowing address: 'Market Research - Product Template Survey' (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q978N76) I hope you can help. Thanks in advance, Matt Question #1 1. How often do you water plants in your garden? Daily 2-3 Time per Week Weekly Monthly Never The best answer is not offered. Before you start to design a watering system you should probably know why this is so. The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the time of year and weather. Look up 'evapotranspiration'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration In my case the frequency would vary from 3 days to 90 days. But if people know that and live in that sort of climate your product has no market. But this is a well trodden path you are going down so nothing new there. David |
University Project - Survey Required Please Help
Matt_UniStudent wrote:
Hi Guys, My name is Matt Oakley and I am a final year Product design Engineer at Loughborough University. I am currently starting a project to design a product, which aides plant watering. I need some customer focused research and would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time. I have setup a web based survey, which takes only a few minutes and is very simple. It can be found at the folowing address: 'Market Research - Product Template Survey' (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q978N76) I hope you can help. Thanks in advance, Matt Question #1 1. How often do you water plants in your garden? Daily 2-3 Time per Week Weekly Monthly Never The best answer is not offered. Before you start to design a watering system you should probably know why this is so. The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the time of year and weather. Look up 'evapotranspiration'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration In my case the frequency would vary from 3 days to 90 days. But if people know that and live in that sort of climate your product has no market. But this is a well trodden path you are going down so nothing new there. David |
University Project - Survey Required Please Help
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Matt_UniStudent wrote: Hi Guys, My name is Matt Oakley and I am a final year Product design Engineer at Loughborough University. I am currently starting a project to design a product, which aides plant watering. I need some customer focused research and would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time. I have setup a web based survey, which takes only a few minutes and is very simple. It can be found at the folowing address: 'Market Research - Product Template Survey' (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q978N76) I hope you can help. Thanks in advance, Matt Question #1 1. How often do you water plants in your garden? Daily 2-3 Time per Week Weekly Monthly Never The best answer is not offered. Before you start to design a watering system you should probably know why this is so. The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the time of year and weather. Look up 'evapotranspiration'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration In my case the frequency would vary from 3 days to 90 days. But if people know that and live in that sort of climate your product has no market. But this is a well trodden path you are going down so nothing new there. David --------------------------------------------------------------------- Trust me. David is being kind. Some of us are a lot less supportive. -- - Billy Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy. Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans "appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of waste, fraud and abuse." http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/ [W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation. - Ralph Nader http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis |
University Project - Survey Required Please Help
On 10/21/2011 4:08 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Matt_UniStudent wrote: snip The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the time of year and weather. Look up 'evapotranspiration'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration You had previously mentioned trimming back foliage to cut down on water loss and that has gotten me thinking about my hydrangeas. The Oak Leaf is well established and does well, but my regular old hydrangea often has droopy leaves. It's in a shady protected spot with little direct sun, and has been in for a few years, but this need for water persists. Should I thin it out, or do you have any other suggestions? With water over 2 cents/gallon, I'm in a water conservation mode. Jeff Atlanta, Piedmont 7B In my case the frequency would vary from 3 days to 90 days. But if people know that and live in that sort of climate your product has no market. But this is a well trodden path you are going down so nothing new there. David |
University Project - Survey Required Please Help
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On 10/21/2011 4:08 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: Matt_UniStudent wrote: snip The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the time of year and weather. Look up 'evapotranspiration'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration You had previously mentioned trimming back foliage to cut down on water loss and that has gotten me thinking about my hydrangeas. The Oak Leaf is well established and does well, but my regular old hydrangea often has droopy leaves. It's in a shady protected spot with little direct sun, and has been in for a few years, but this need for water persists. Should I thin it out, or do you have any other suggestions? Hydrangeas love/need water. I don't grow them but they do need trimming from time to time to keep them compact. If you do this at a time that doesn't interfere with flowering you should get some improvement. Other than that mulch heavily and avoid high nitrogen fertiliser that will put on lots of soft leafy growth. Or replace them with a less water-needy shrub. With water over 2 cents/gallon, I'm in a water conservation mode. Jeff Atlanta, Piedmont 7B You could try capturing your roof water but to attempt to do a whole garden you need to have large tanks/ponds and to rearrange your roof plumbing so it may not be cost effective, particlaurly if you pay somebody to do it. The common idea of running a downpipe into a 200 litre (50 gal US) drum is cheap and appealing but only gives enough to water a few tubs or a *very* small plot. David |
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