More air in the soil with frequent irrigation
It sounds counterintuitive at first, that you can maintain a lower average water content in the soil, and a higher air content in the soil, by applying irrigation every day. Once upon a time, I thought the way to keep soils drier and with more air was to implement deep and infrequent irrigation.
- The blog post discussed is: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/deep-and-infrequent-or-light-and-frequent-irrigation-which-is-better/
- I also mentioned John Jordan's research, see: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink/RECNO/59354
- Paul Johnson article about irrigation frequency: https://usgatero.lib.msu.edu/v02/n06.pdf
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