Every winter, I bring my tropical plants and my cold-tender plants indoors, turning my house into a makeshift greenhouse. My ...

I bought a 3-way soil meter from a Chinese online store. The first thing that caught my attention in the soil meter was that there was no battery compartment to store a battery pack. This three-way ...

Moisture management is one of the most important aspects of bringing creeping bentgrass putting greens through a southern summer. Too much moisture encourages maladies such as leaf and newsContent ...

RainPoint is introducing a fully integrated, data-driven irrigation system that optimizes plant care, reduces water waste and ...

Given how easy it is to kill plants by overwatering, these devices are tempting – but can they beat simply sticking your finger in the soil?

A frequent beginner project involves measuring soil moisture levels by measuring its resistance with a couple of electrodes. These electrodes are available ready-made as PCBs, but suffer badly from ...

A new satellite from NASA, scheduled to launch on 29 January, may help to improve those predictions. The Soil Mapping Active Passive (SMAP) probe uses microwave measurements to plot moisture levels in ...

GARDEN CITY — A machine scans the soil for water, measures carbon levels, temperature, wind speed and more, beaming its findings through the airwaves. It’s not a rover on some other planet, it a new ...

Probes were constructed to measure non-destructively the moisture content of soil in a pot. The thermal conductivity of the soil was determined using a line-source of heat which yielded measurements ...