Restore Your Greenery With a Garden Rain Gauge

What can a garden rain gauge do to save your lawn or your vegetable garden? Well it won't water your lilies for prune your shrubs, but it will do a lot to help you grow your lawn and garden. Let's take a look at why you should have one.


Knowing the amount of water that has fallen on your greenery is important. You want thriving vegetable plants, flowers and a nice green lawn. But to get this everything needs the right amount of water. Too much or too little are both problems. If you have a garden rain gauge there's no guess work involved. You'll know exactly how much rainfall has come down, and how much water you need to add (if any) to your vegetation. It's a simple instrument that can accomplish a lot.

RK400-01 Tipping Bucket Rainfall Sensor Accurate Rain Gauge

Construction

The simplest garden rain gauges use a funnel and a graduated cylinder to measure the amount of rainfall. If there is excessive rainfall, and the cylinder spills over, a separate cylinder may be provided to collect the excess spillage and record it too. The cylinder is generally graduated in millimeters or inches. While not as accurate as some of the more advanced electronic gauges on the market, the truth is that a home use garden rain gauge doesn't need the accuracy of the gauges used by professionals and hydrologists. Their focus is on research, whereas your focus is on restoring the green patch of your home!


There are other advanced rain gauges as well which use sophisticated electronics and sensors to provide an accurate reading. Again that is for the professionals or maybe even for you, if you plan a small weather station setup.

RK400-02 Rain & Snow Sensor

Optimum Water Usage

With clean water fast becoming a disappearing commodity, it is essential to know how much water to use. The garden rain gauge helps in optimum usage of water. If your area has gone through a period of drought, you would certainly like to know the exact amount of water that's needed for your garden.

Here's an additional bonus. The gauge does not have to measure only rainfall. Placing a gauge under a sprinkler can help you determine the amount of water you have used. Record at the time of sprinkling so that next time you don't need to keep standing to let the gauge fill up to the target mark!


If you live in an area, where there is excess of rainfall, you might want to know when to water those already excessive watered plants. The garden rain gauge is the ideal instrument then. But don't place it under dense foliage; it will make your recordings inaccurate. Use a clear and obstruction free area for optimum results.

The garden rain gauge is the way to go for anyone interested in gardening or just having a nice looking lawn.


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