Am I Watering My Plants Too Much or Too Little?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this excerpt from the podcast conversation that I had with soil scientist Keith Reid, we learn about how to determine when your plants need to be watered.
Keith has been fascinated with soil from the time he was growing up on a mixed farm in Bruce county, Ontario, and has been lucky enough to make that fascination into a career that has spanned four decades. This has included time working for a fertilizer and farm supply retailer, the Ontario government as a soil fertility specialist, and the Canadian government as a soil scientist developing methods to keep phosphorus on the land and out of the Great Lakes. Throughout this time, there have always been gardens to tend. Writing “Improving Your Soil” was an opportunity to share what he has learned in a clear, approachable way for gardeners wherever they are, spanning the gap between the cursory treatment in most garden books and the complexity of a university textbook.
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Very informative. I used landscape fabric this year primarily as weed control, however; this prevents me from effectively checking soil moisture. Next year I am going to use the mulching method, which will not only allow me to monitor soil moisture, but will create and produce beautiful soil. Thanks for all of the gardening knowledge you share via your videos. I find them especially helpful to growing vegetables here in Maine.
I don't see how the mulching method would prevent you from monitoring soil moisture - just stick you hand in the soil to check it - that's what I do :)
Interesting conversation. I've finally figuired out how to make it rain... we're in a nearly month long heatwave in Northern Ontario and I've determined I had to water three times so far this year... and each time it's rained LOTS within 24 hours of finishing the watering :-) As a little aside on the carrots. For years - since 2012 - I've had great difficulty gertting germination. I've tried watering the seedbed two or three times a day with my watering can, but to no avail. This year I did two things differently... I covered the seedbed with a piece of Agribon, then set my sprinkler up on the carrot beds and left it there. I turned the water on twice a day for a good soak... and now I have to thin my carrots LOLOLOL. Apparently this is what some commercial market gardeners, like Martin Fortier do... not the agribon, but installing the sprinkler and leaving it there until the seeds germinate. Thanks for your dedication to your channel. It's a lot of work.
Thanks man - good trick too :)
If plants are in the soil and properly mulched, there should be no need to water unless it doesn't rain for 7 days and the temps are extreme, otherwise, I've had plants last 2 to 3 weeks without watering because I had at least 4 inches of mulch. Frequent watering by humans is a substitute for building and using the soil's properties and using mulch.
What does it mean to be above grade?
Above the surface of the soil. A 6" raised bed, for instance, is 6" above grade.