Monitoring soil moisture made easy

We come across more and more cases where dry soils are the unexpected cause of damage to turf. Dry soils result from poor irrigation distribution, contour issues, surface sealing and other infiltration problems. But before you can address the problem, you need to be able to detect it.

There are several good tools available for monitoring soil moisture, and one of our favorites is the TDR 350 from Spectrum Technologies. However, this tool requires calibration in each soil type, and,…