I bought a 3-way soil meter from a Chinese online store. The first thing that caught my attention in the soil meter was that there was no battery compartment to store a battery pack. This three-way ...

Moisture management is one of the most important aspects of bringing creeping bentgrass putting greens through a southern summer. Too much moisture encourages maladies such as leaf and newsContent ...

Soil moisture meters are simple gardening tools that include sensing probes that detect the level of dampness in soil. They’re touted as the best predictors for watering, so to see if they live up to ...

GARDEN CITY — A machine scans the soil for water, measures carbon levels, temperature, wind speed and more, beaming its findings through the airwaves. It’s not a rover on some other planet, it a new ...

Probes were constructed to measure non-destructively the moisture content of soil in a pot. The thermal conductivity of the soil was determined using a line-source of heat which yielded measurements ...

LAKELAND – New soil moisture probes are expected to save water for irrigation, keep nutrients out of groundwater and save money for farmers. The Nature Conservancy and researchers at the University of ...

Given how easy it is to kill plants by overwatering, these devices are tempting – but can they beat simply sticking your finger in the soil? The problem Houseplants often die from too much water, not ...

Tim McClelland runs a livestock and cropping operation at Jil Jil and was sowing pastures and hay crops last week. He was hoping for some rain to help the fodder crops germinate before moving onto ...