Deciding when to irrigate can feel like half art, half science. Visual inspections, weather reports, and soil moisture can give you a pretty good idea when your crop needs more water, but soil water potential could help you make even better use of your valuable water. Soil water potential is, in short, the amount of energy it takes for plants to pull water out of the soil, and it's the real limiting factor for how much water in the soil your crops can use.
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