Building Your Own Tensiometer for Monitoring Soil Water Tension

In this video from Growing the Valley, learn how to construct your own tensiometer. Tensiometer are a helpful tool to monitor soil water tension in agricultural soils to then inform irrigation schedules. If interested in written instructions, check out the original design from from Michael Cahn and David Chambers at https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=30042. This video was adapted from these instructions.

Video made through support of the CDFA and Almond Board of California.