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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Automatic Watering System Question
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:33:56 -0400

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:22:17 -0700, you wrote:


>
>We water early in the morning - from 5-6am, so the water in the hose is
>not hot, and so that the plants are well watered before the hot of the
>day hits. I would advise doing the same.

This would solve it nicely, thanks.


>However, I believe that plants actually prefer warm water, I know I've
>seen studies about feeding plants warm water in greenhouses to increase
>plant growth - but I can't find any of those studies. :/
>
>We've had drip irrigation systems in our yard for years, and have
>watered during the hot day when needed - it doesn't harm the plants at
>all. Especially since the emitters are basically dripping into the
>ground, and not on the plant itself.
>

This will also be true.

We're always up early though (at least one of is, not me!
<g>), watering in the early mornings will be fine for us.
Thanks!

Pat
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