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5 percent watering rule 🧪 Inputs & Teas

Applying water equal to roughly 5 percent of the total soil volume per watering, typically every other day during heavy stretch.

Jeremy's baseline watering math for the 3x3 no-till bed. He delivers each event through a Chapin pump sprayer with a 1 gal/min nozzle, pumping the full tank into the bed.

Discussed in: Ep 007 · Ep 011 · Ep 020

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Chapin pump sprayer · No-till · No-till bed · stretch