PDC LESSON 5.5 WATERING – HOW OFTEN DO YOU NEED TO WATER

 

PERMACULTURE COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

PDC LESSON 5.5 WATERING – HOW OFTEN DO YOU NEED TO WATER

 

Nothing is more important than water

for your plants to thrive, and adequate watering would save most plants that are lost in farms each year. The best way to tell if your garden needs water is to feel the soil 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 cm) below the surface.

How often you should water depends on factors such as the type of soil, how well the garden is mulched, and the amount of sunlight your plants are getting. Assuming adequate mulch and summer temperatures are up to the late 20°  C, once a week watering should suffice. However, with full sun and temperatures in the 30° C, you may need to water every other day.

Plants need soil that is at least 50% moist to absorb nutrients. Likewise, the soil creatures.

Of course, how long you irrigate also depends on the growth phase, and this is different for the different types of vegetables or for trees or berries. Here you must check exactly the amount required for the individual plants and find out more. In the growth phase of the small plant, they need something every day and a little watering, later when the roots are bigger and go deeper, it is sometimes enough to water about every other day.

But in the end, in the way of organically cultivating a farm, it is not only important to water the plant, but to keep the entire soil space around the plant, or rather in the entire bed, in a certain moisture.

This constant moisture helps the soil creatures activated by compost and mulch to thrive in a slightly damp and warm environment. In the end, this means that you should water constantly so that the soil always stays a little moist and never dries up.

This also applies when the harvest has been taken out, the plants have either been uprooted or cut off above the ground level. you must do everything you can to keep the soil alive that is the most important thing and then when the harvest has been taken out put it back in before the better said. Permaculture does not just mean planting mixed plants, but permanent planting. Check the moisture with a special hydrometer.

When one plant is harvested, place the next one in between in a different shape. Thus, there is year-round activity in the field without any breaks, constantly watering, constantly mulching and possibly constantly composting again and again and thus multiplying the yield of the farmland so far that one can achieve a yield of $4 per square meter. Of course, that also means constantly working for the Africans, every day from morning to evening, and then they will also generate successful income just like Europeans or Asians.