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Soil quality measurements
Ola-
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Hi all,
We're a bunch of technology geeks who happen to have green fingers as well. To check our soil quality we have put a tool together using sensors and an app to check your soil. Just wanted to check if others would be interested or if we should just stick to gardening: http://unbouncepages.com/green-garden-monitor/
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one wonders how gardens and gardeners have survived for thousands of years without apps.
Oh yeah, common sense and diligence.
What's the point of measuring the temperature of your soil?
Stupid idea.
Old gardeners measured the temperature of the soil with their cheeks, (of the trouser variety.?)
When it wasn't unbearably cold, the seeds went in.
Don't sit on the fence, say what you really mean.
Sowing into ground which is too cold can have a negative effect on germination, so knowing the ground temperature isn't really such a stupid idea.
Technology and knowledge moves on and some bits of tech may be useful and others prove not to be. Discounting them out of hand is probably rather more stupid than considering the possible upsides.
I looked at the photo on the page in the link KT and assumed the sensor was stuck in a potted houseplant, which in my mind would register as "room temperature".
And who here in the UK monitors the humidity of their garden? Maybe I'm missing out there
? Could be handy in the greenhouse though
I can appreciate the need for outdoor soil temps to warm up for seed sowing. I rely on weather watching for that and a bog standard thermometer
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I don't appreciate cheeky unpaid advertising, trying to flog stuff on the forum
It's just an advert, nothing much, plenty of stuff available down the GC for those that can't use their own judgement or like a new toy
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ola,
I get where you're coming from when most of the youngsters today have their lives controlled more and more by their phone/technology. I'm thinkling of the apps that switch your house lights on or control your central heating etc/ Or the apps that tell you whether it is raining or not when you could look out the window.
And I do confess that I have the old fashioned soil probe that tells me on it the ph/humidity level of the soil. But I've only used it about half a dozen times in the last 30 years! Funnily enough, the last time was a few weeks ago. So yes, I do applaud you all having the thinking to create something like this but it will appeal only to a very small minority. Now if you had made it so we just stuck our iphones into the ground and then got a reading, that would be progress!