Instructions for Collecting your Soil Sample

To determine your irrigation scheduling, you will first need to evaluate your soil's moisture-holding capacity.

Simple Steps to Irrigation Scheduling Using the "Look and Feel" Method Franz Niederholzer & Lynn Long You will need to determine the rooting depth of the tree or plants to be irrigated, and the soil water-holding capacity of different soil horizons within the root zone of the plants to be irrigated. Use these instructions for getting a soil sample to get started.

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Information Sheets

Once you have a sample to look at, use these sheets to help you determine the soil moisture content of your soils by comparing your sample to the photographs on the information sheets.

Sandy Clay Loam and Loam Soils	Sandy Loam and Fine Sandy Loam
Arcilla de Tierra Arenosa	Tierra Arenosa y Tierra Arenosa muy Fina

Other Resources

Responses of Sweet Cherry Water Use and Productivity and Soil Quality to Alternate Groundcover and Irrigation Systems
L.E. Long, X. Yin, X. Huang & N. Jaja (2014). ACTA Hort (1020); pp 331-338

Transitional Effects of Double-lateral Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch on Irrigation Water Consumption, Mineral Nutrition, Yield, and Storability of Sweet Cherry
X. Yin, L.E. Long, X. Huang, N. Jaja, J. Bai, C.F. Seavert & J. le Roux (2012). HorTechnology, August vol. 22 (4). pp 484-492

Responses of Sweet Cherry Productivity and Soil Quality to Alternate Groundcover and Irrigation Systems (Poster)
X. Yin, X. Huang & L.E. Long