This week the Enviro avengers were introduced to a new weather station. It gives data on today’s weather in a sheet mailed to Mrs Hansen. Speaking of probes, they also experimented with a soil probe to determine the moisture of the soil in the garden.

Enviro avengers learnt why soil moisture matters, and how too much water can drown a plant along with the traditional way to determine soil moisture. We went up to the garden and plunged the soil probe into one of the garden beds. Different spots of the garden bed had different soils moisture percentages, ranging from 12.3% to 96%. 

We were surprised at the differences of soil moisture in certain areas of the bed. Enviro thought that the moisture was going to be evenly distributed, but it wasn’t. The left side of the bed had a higher moisture content, while the right side was rather dry. After doing a few more tests, we went back inside to conclude our experiment.