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Water Needs on a New Field

June 10th, 2009
DeepSeeded Community Farm | Blog

Well, I thought I was getting a sense for the water holding and capillarity of my soil, but I guess I still have more to learn. Most of my crops have been faring quite well, but the onions are still struggling. When we were weeding today I noticed that the parts of the onion beds immediately under where the sprinkler risers were at the last watering are twice as tall and deeper green than the rest of patch. The soil still has good moisture below the top couple inches, but the young onions are shallow rooted. In the finer textured soils I’ve worked with in the past, more of that deeper moisture would have been wicked up to the surface.

The whole patch is getting a nice watering now, and hopefully they’ll all snap out of if it and thrive.

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Tags: onions, watering, texture, capillarity

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