RE: watering and dealing with the heat
- Subject: RE: watering and dealing with the heat
- From: "Marilyn Dube" m*@easystreet.com
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:22:01 -0700
Marge,
This is the problem I had with burying my leaky black soaker hoses in my
veggie raised beds- the water didn't go sideways at all - leaving the middle
1 foot (wide)deeply watered and the 2 foot (wide) sides dry as could be.
:( For me it does better laying them on top of the soil, even though you
lose some water to evaporation.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Marge Talt
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 9:01 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: watering and dealing with the heat
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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