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 ...

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?

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

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 ...

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 ...

LAKELAND – New soil moisture probes are expected to save water for irrigation, keep nutrients out of groundwater and save money for farmers. The Nature Conservancy and researchers at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are designing your own intelligent “Graden Computer” with an optional digital plant moisture sensor/water pump controller that lights an LED to alert the user when it is time to water a potted ...