Re: watering and dealing with the heat
- Subject: Re: watering and dealing with the heat
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:01:16 -0400
That's my take on it, too, Judy. No matter how much I water, it does
not penetrate the ground like a decent - or even indecent - bit of
water from the sky. Now, a couple of times, I've left a sprinkler on
all night by mistake and that does seem to make a bit of a
difference:-) Cannot afford to do this on purpose, however.
Water does not seem to go sideways in the ground unless there's a
slope...or at least not much - depends, of course, on how loose the
soil is. If it's very friable, water will spread out a bit more, but
it tends (in my unscientific observation) to go down (gravity) and
not sideways.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: AWarner <awarner@charter.net>
>
> I'm not sure if it's my imagination but it never seems to me that
watering
> really gets the ground as wet as rain. I measure an inch from the
sprinkle
> and it doesn't really seem to wet the ground. Also, I remember
reading that
> water doesn't really go sideways in the ground--does anyone know if
that's
> true, or did I imagine it? Judy Warner
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