I'm not always so great at figuring out these things, so if someone has a better guess, please, correct away!??
It's my understanding that high water needs plants like about an inch of water per week.? 400 sq. ft. would be about 33 cubic feet.? With about 7.5 gallons of water in a cubic foot, you'd need about 250 gallons per week, or about 1000+ gallons per month.? I tried looking up average monthly rainfalls in Boulder, and they're all over the map!, but it seems to be expected between 1" to 1.5" per month in the spring and summer months.? So, you'd need to supplement the rainfall by about 600-750 gallons per month.? A four month season might need in the area of 2500+ gallons.? Of course, using those good water practices? -- like the mulch and the roof cachement and the planting patterns and the hardier plants -- would probably cut needs down "quite a bit".?? -Laura Braddock On Feb 6, 2008 12:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Send Community_garden mailing list submissions to ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ? ?http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Community_garden digest..." Today's Topics: ? 1. Paying for water at Community Gardens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ? 2. Re: Paying for water at Community Gardens (Sharon Gordon) ? 3. Re: Paying for water Part 2 (Sharon Gordon) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:57:50 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Community_garden] Paying for water at Community Gardens To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Message-ID: ? ?<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 I'm looking for information on programs that currently charge community gardeners for their water consumption. Currently, we are opening a new garden in our county where the gardeners will be charged by plot for water consumption. We are considering making drip irrigation mandatory in the gardens. I'm looking for feedback on best practices from those of you who charge for water. If you have any suggestions for how to make this system work fairly and smoothly, please let me know! Also, if anyone has any estimations on how much water a 400 square foot plot would typically consume during a growing season, we're located in an arid climate (Boulder, CO) that would be very helpful as well! Thanks so much, Annie Sweeney Growing Gardens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-413-7248 ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080206/b50f73ce/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
