The 60 mm of rain in week 11 has wet the top soil again.
This is the week where I ran out of time to look at the data. And this is also the time the logger decided to stop working. You will see next week that there will be several days of missing data.
There is a lesson here. I collect lots of data from lots of places and usually have too much information to make sense of it all. Add to this the inevitable hardware breakdowns and we have information overload plus information gaps = wasted opportunities.
The point is that the effort in monitoring (time and expense) must be matched by the amount I am learning. If I can't turn the information into better decisions and a deeper understanding of the system I'm managing then .....
For the last two weeks we have been eating the corn. By next week I'll be able to give you total yield and water use.
The 60 mm of rain in week 11 has wet the top soil again.
Another wet week. 60 mm over 3 days got a response from both detectors. No irrigation was required.
Close watchers of this blog will note that this post is almost a week late. The whole idea of a blog is to let the experiment unfold in real time, so we can see the data together and so that I can explain (justify) the decisions I make. Last week I got too distracted and ran out of time. As you will see later - there is a price to pay for this!
Before the experiment started I produced the axes of the graphs with the green, orange and red shading. This was to give you some idea of what I expected to happen. I expected the salt to get up into the orange and maybe the red and then I would leach it out. But it did not happen that way. But stay tuned.....the story is not over yet.
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