FW: watering
- To: "'Pumpkin'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: FW: watering
- From: "* G* L* <G*@PSS.Boeing.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:50:39 -0700
Sent this to the group earlier but for some reason it didn't make it -
so if it shows up twice - sorry
> for the newer growers here is some information that might help you in
> your watering.
>
> 1 gallon = 231 cubic inches
>
> to water 1 square foot of your garden with 1 inch of water it takes
> 0.623 gallons or just more that 1/2 a gallon. so if you want to know
> how much to water mulitply the square footage of you garden by 0.623.
> that is how much water you need to water your garden 1 in of water.
> If you think your garden needs 1 1/2 in. of water per week then
> multiply by 1.5. then if you water everyday dividle that number by 7.
>
>
> here is an example for 20 ft by 50 ft garden
> 20 x 50 = 1000 sq ft
> 1000 x 0.623 = 623 gallons
> 623 x 1.5 = 934.5 gallons for the patch per week
> 934.5 divided by 7 = 133.5 gallons per day
>
> if you don't know how much water comes out of your hose, here is
> watch you can do -( if you don't want to by a flow meter) get a five
> gallon bucket - turn on you hose the same as when you water your plant
> - with the same nozzle, sprayer, just straight out ot the hose or
> whatever. time how long it takes you to fill the 5 gallon bucket.
> then dividle your number of gallons per day by 5.
> then take that number and multiply it with the time it took to fill
> the bucket - this is the amount of time you should water.
>
> for the example above :
> say it took 2 minutes to fill the bucket.
> take 133.5 dividle by 5 = 26.7
> 26.7 x 2 = 53.4 minutes.
>
> Thus you should water the whole 20 x 50 patch as evenly as you can for
> 53 minutes everyday.
>
> if you have sprinklers you can stick a few rain gages in the patch and
> see how long it takes to fill them 1/4 inch. to get 1 1/2 inches on
> your garden per week then you multiply that time by 6. then dividle
> by 7 to get a daily time.
> for example if it take 30 minutes for your sprinklers to fill your
> gages with 1/4 inch of water. 30 x 6 = 180 180 dividle by 7 = 25.7
> so you should water your patch about 25 1/2 minutes everyday. ( a
> tuna can makes a good watering gage )
>
> Gordon Tanner
> Maple Valley, WA
>
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