Re: CULT:Rain vs. Watering
From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>
John Montgomery wrote:
>
> ....
>
> This brings to mind an observation. I am certain that when we get a
> good summer rain, that almost everything responds to it with better
> growth than I can see after an equivalent amount of irrigation.
Especially if it's from a thunderstorm, rain water will have a little
nitrogen in it, which may help.
> Of
> course our irrigation water will be cooler than a summer rain and that
> may be important.
Or maybe the cooling of the weather front may be good, or the winds, or
the higher humidity during the rain.
> What I really do wonder about though is the amount of
> chlorine in the water.
My guess is that this is not the reason.
But many of us have noteds the effect: rain is better than watering.
Gerry, looking forward to rebloom by Keppel's Lovely Dawn
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g*@loop.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair
Region 15 Ass't RVP, JT Chair
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
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