Same Water, Three Different Stories: What Our Soil Probes Learned in a Rainless Summer
No rain fell on the farm from May to September, and three garden beds got the same irrigation. Soil probes at four depths show three very different fates for that water: held deep in a hügelkultur bed, kept in steady reserve under an alley-cropped bed, barely past the surface in our control. Next: let the soil set the schedule.