By Dwayne
I recently wrote an article that explains why you should not use water that has gone through a water softener to mist or irrigate your plants. The article ended with a brief explanation that a benefit of bypassing the water softener to water the cuttings and plants is that the softener will not have to [...]
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By Dwayne
Of course you can use water that has passed through a water softener to mist your cuttings with. It will provide the exact same amount of moisture that non-softened water will. However, that is pretty much all the benefit it will provide.
What is softened water?
Softened water is water that has gone through a process to [...]
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By Dwayne
One question I get asked often is how to turn off a zone when using a DIG 5006-IP propagation timer. Why would you want to turn off a zone? Good question. Maybe you are having an extremely wet spring like we did in Maine this year. If it rains every day for two months straight, [...]
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By Dwayne
Trey Pitsenberger from The Blogging Nurseryman has written a post about a story that was in Popular Mechanics. The article basically says that depending on where you live, you may not have the right to use a rain barrel to collect rain water from your roof. Personally, I think this is ridiculous. What next, regulating [...]
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By Dwayne
Water conservation is on everyone’s mind nowadays. Here are a few tips on how to conserve water by repairing your garden hose or hose spigot. Did you know one drip per second from a faucet or leaky hose adds up to 2,640 gallons a year? Amazing huh?
Repairing your leaking hose or spigot:
The first place to [...]
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By Dwayne
OK, I think this may be a bit much.
It seems there is a device on the market that will allow your plants to post on Twitter. Yes, you read that right, the plant! By simply hooking up this device to an internet connection using the built-in ethernet connection, pushing the supplied probes into your [...]
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