maths for real life

Next challenge on our water management journey : find a way to check that the seedlings in the nursery are receiving the right amount of water.

Best equipment for the job : soil moisture probes.

Problem: standard soil moisture probes are too big to fit into the seedling tubes.

Solution: put a soil moisture probe in a bucket of potting mix in the nursery with approximately the same surface-area-to-volume ratio as the much smaller forestry tubes that our saplings grow in. This means soil moisture readings will give a reasonable indication of whether our saplings are getting enough water (until we get our small moisture probes that fit in the tubes).

We like a challenge at Forktree. We also know that solutions are needed when they are needed , not weeks or months later. And how gratifying to dust off our maths skills and put them to real-life use to find real-life solutions to real-life challenges.