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Midway City, California

How deep does your water go and how do you know this?
What tool/instrument do you use to determine the depth of moist soil?

6/7/2005 11:43:14 AM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

"What tool/instrument do you use to determine the depth of moist soil?" - a 5" wide and 20" deep hole in the middle of the patch drilled down with a soil drill. It is covered with a 6" diameter round plate that is only removed in order to grab down with your arm to feel how moist the soil is.

6/7/2005 11:58:28 AM

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Hey, why buy a tool to measure moisture when you've got ten of them at the end of your arm for free :-)

Seriously, though, moisture meters aren't very expensive, are they? But, I doubt most of them go any deeper than six or ten inches. Maybe there are more expensive ones that go deeper and are more accurate, digital etc.

6/7/2005 4:48:50 PM

Montoursville, PA

I have about a twelve inch piece of PVC Sch.40 which I can pull to go down in for a dampness check. Pull pipe, check and return pipe to hole. Works fine.

6/7/2005 6:01:21 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Standard soil sampling probe.

6/7/2005 9:25:43 PM

Canada

I have a soil moisture tool I bought pretty cheaply from
Ebay last spring, works very well, I checked my soil today its been in the 80-90's for the past 2 weeks and ive ONLY watered once and that was a week ago, i checked moisture today first 3 " were dry but as soon as i got down to the 6-7" mark is was full of moisture.

Dave

6/8/2005 3:59:43 AM