Water Has Memory
Tuesday at 6am. Eight minutes. Every week, regardless of what the previous week looked like. This is how most residential and small-scale commercial irrigation systems work. A timer, a programme, a schedule built around the convenience of the person who installed it rather than the needs of the living system it’s meant to serve. The controller doesn’t know that it rained 20mm on Sunday. It doesn’t know the soil is still saturated. It doesn’t know the canopy is wet and adding more water will encourage the fungal disease that’s been lurking at the edges of the patch for a fortnight.
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