My red currant bush just doesn’t behave like it’s supposed to according to the books. Again this year it’s flowering on 1 year old wood and there are very few flowers on the 2 and 3 year old wood:
The party is clearly on the 1 year old top shoots, and not much is going on below on the older wood:
The numbers on the picture below is the age of the wood:
But what the heck – I bet the fruit is just as good if we can get to it before the birds.
Update 2011-09-05: I have created a new blog about electronics only – check it out here: Electronic measurements, NSLU2 and soil moisture sensor
The 1-wire soil moisture sensor circuit I use in my garden is designed by Eric Vickery from http://www.hobby-boards.com.
(c) 2006 Hobby Boards Designed by Eric Vickery
Title: Moisture Meter 3
Rev: 3
Date: 10/27/2006 06:11:30p
(Click the picture for a larger version.)
Here’s a bit of explanation on how the humidity sensor circuit works.
The circuit is connected like this:
and the circuit works like this:
In my case I got the following values during calibration. I let the Watermark sensor dry in the wind and recorded the current register value, and afterwards the sensor was soaked in a bucket of water:
Dry = -0.2368
Wet = -1.400
These numbers form the 0 and 100 % limits of my soil moisture readings.
