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Rainwater Harvesting Calculator: How Much Your Roof and Rain Barrels Collect
Enter your roof footprint, a storm’s rainfall, your rain barrels and your garden size to see gallons collected, barrels filled, overflow, and how many weeks of garden water you have stored. Sourced from the Texas Water Development Board and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
Raised Bed Drip Irrigation Calculator: Tubing, Emitters and Run Time
Enter your raised beds, drip line and emitters to get feet of tubing, emitter count, total GPH, minutes to run for the water you want and a parts list. A 4×8 bed with 0.5 GPH emitters every 12 inches needs about 75 minutes a week for 1 inch.
How Many Gallons Is 1 Inch of Water? (Garden Beds and Lawns)
One inch of water over one square foot is 0.623 gallons. A table by bed and lawn size, the math behind it, and a calculator that turns gallons into minutes on a hose, drip line or sprinkler.
Vegetable Frost Tolerance Chart: Which Crops Survive 32°F, 28°F and Below
Cover tender crops like tomatoes and peppers when the forecast low is 36°F or colder, semi-hardy crops below 28°F and hardy crops like kale below 24°F. A printable frost tolerance chart for 57 garden crops, a what-to-cover tool, and how to cover plants for frost.
How Many Corn Plants per Square Foot?
4 corn plants per square foot, 6 inches apart each way, planted as a block of squares so the wind can pollinate it. Plan on about one ear per stalk.
How Many Basil Plants per Square Foot?
One full-size basil plant per square foot, 12 inches apart, and up to 4 small-leaf dwarf basils. Why guides say 1, 2 or 4, and how many plants you actually need.