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Irrigation System Maintenance, Candace Schaible, Kelly Kopp, Jennie Hoover

All Current Publications

Irrigation system maintenance is necessary to ensure the most efficient use of the water that is being applied. Efficient irrigation is important because over two-thirds of the total water used in the average Utah home is applied to the landscape. With the natural drought cycles that occur in Utah and the growing population, efficient water use is critical. These maintenance recommendations will help you evaluate your irrigation system before using it each spring and also throughout the growing season.

An Investigation Of The Utilization Of Soil Water And Nitrogen Among Diverse Forage Plant Species And Mixtures, Sallee Reynolds

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Species diversity achieved by adding novel functional groups (warm-season grasses and non-leguminous forbs) to pasture land, along with traditional grasses and legumes, could aid in the capture of nutrients and water in pasture systems by offering complementary rooting architecture to aid in water and nitrogen uptake and decrease nitrogen leaching. Because these species may differ from commonly used grasses and legumes in their seasonal pattern of productivity, they could also extend or enhance growing-season productivity. The goal of this project is to better understand the role of plant diversity in 1) nitrogen use and 2) distribution of rooting dynamics and …

Curl-Leaf Mountain Mahogany In The Landscape, Heidi Kratsch, Graham Hunter

All Current Publications

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Caneberry Irrigation, Brent Black, Robert Hill, Grant Cardon

All Current Publications

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Water-Wise Landscaping: Plant Maintenance, Taun Beddes, Heidi A. Kratsch

Gardening

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Home Water Self-Check: Do-It-Yourself Water Check For The Home Landscape, Todd A. Mccammon

All Current Publications

In Utah, nearly two-thirds of the water consumed by residential homeowners is used to maintain landscapes. Recent water checks conducted by Utah State University Extension found that a typical homeowner applies 80 inches of water each growing season. This is twice as much as is needed.

Designing A Low Water Use Landscape, Teresa Cerny, Kelly L. Kopp, Maggie Wolf, Debbie Amundsen

Gardening

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Designing A Low Water Use Landscape, Teresa Cerny, Kelly L. Kopp, Maggie Wolf, Debbie Amundsen

All Current Publications

A landscape design should meet the needs of the people who will use and maintain the area while incorporating the site’s existing environmental conditions into the design. Water is a limiting resource in Utah, so designing the landscape to efficiently use water is important. Conserving water in the landscape can be accomplished by selecting low water use plants, designing and scheduling irrigation systems efficiently, grouping plants according to their water requirements, and using hardscaping materials (patios, stone paths, decks, etc.) appropriately to reduce the area requiring irrigation.

Water-Wise Landscaping: Monitoring Irrigation With Probes, Rich Koenig, Kelly Kopp, Chad Reid

Gardening

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Efficient Irrigation Of Trees And Shrubs, Teresa A. Cerny, Michael R. Kuhns, Kelly L. Kopp, Mike Johnson

All Current Publications

In Utah, urban landscape irrigation accounts for 50-75% of the annual municipal water use, and much of it is applied in excess of the plant’s needs. This excess is a tremendous resource waste and the overspray causes substantial damage to hardscape (i.e., decks, patios, fountains, decorative concrete, etc.). Scheduling irrigation according to landscape plant water needs can reduce excess water use. In addition to conserving water, proper irrigation can encourage deeper root growth and healthier, more drought tolerant landscapes.

Water-Wise Landscaping, Kelly L. Kopp, Teresa Cerny, Rick Heflebower

Gardening

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Water-Wise Landscaping, Kelly L. Kopp, Teresa Cerny, Rick Heflebower

All Archived Publications

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Water-Wise Lanscaping: Soil Preparation And Management, Rick Heflebower, Rich Koenig

All Archived Publications

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Mulch Much: Save Water, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Conserve, But No Need To "Zero" Scape, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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I Know What A Green Thumb Is, What Is A Blue Thumb?, Kitt Farrell Poe

All Archived Publications

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How Do I Put Splendor Back In My Grass?, Mary Ann Dunn

All Archived Publications

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Water-Wise Lanscaping: Monitoring Irrigation With Probes, Rich Koenig, Kelly Kopp, Chad Reid

All Archived Publications

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Start Weaning Your Plants Now, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Water Is Tight But Most Plants Are Alright, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Water, Water Everywhere, Dennis Hinkamp

All Current Publications

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Trees Still Coping With Wet Spring, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Train Your Lawn Not To Beg For Water, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Planning Is The Key To Saving Water In The Garden, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Water-Wise Landscaping: Guide For Water Management Planning, Terry Keane

All Archived Publications

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Water-Wise Landscaping, Terry Keane

Gardening

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The Relationship Between Matric Water And Related Physiological Properties, Hussain Ali Al-Saadi

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Matric water was measured as the water retained by plant material on a pressure membrane or ultra filter after equilibration under 20 bars nitrogen gas pressure and the removal of free water. At increasing pressures lesser amounts of water are held by matric or colloidal surface forces. Twenty bars pressure, supplied by cylinder nitrogen for 48 hours, was used in this study. Matric water was expressed as a percent of either (a) the dry weight or (b) the original water content. Plant material was oven dried, ground, and then saturated with water prior to the determination.

The matric water values …

Bulletin No. 240 - Effect Of Feed, Water, And Shelter Upon Fleeces Of Utah Ewes, A. C. Esplin

UAES Bulletins

Fleeces from range-bred ewes wintered on desert ranges are compared in this bulletin with fleeces taken from ewes of the same breeding wintered under farm conditions, involving regular feeding, shelter, and free access to water. Four hundred and sixty-two fleeces are included in the comparison.

Bulletin No. 183 - Water-Holding Capacity Of Irrigated Soils, Orson W. Israelsen, Frank L. West

UAES Bulletins

All information that will 'enable the irrigator to use water economically is valuable to arid-climate agriculture. In many arid-climate regions, including the western part of the United States, excessive waste of water occurs in the irrigation of highland porous soil areas, as a result of lack of information concerning the capacity of the soil to hold water. Following the waste of water on the uplands by excessive percolation through open soils, vast lowland areas are rendered partially or wholly nonproductive by water-logging. To illustrate, a gravelly bench soil four feet deep, if underlain by a coarse open gravel to a …

Bulletin No. 181 - Duty-Of-Water Investigations On Coal Creek, Utah, Arthur Fife

UAES Bulletins

Coal Creek flows from the west slope of the part of the Wasatch Mountain range which is located in the southeast part of Iron County, Utah. Its drainage area is almost 100 square miles.

Seasonal and daily stream-flow fluctuations are very pronounced. During the high water of spring the flow has reached more than 600 second-feet. At the time of high water, the daily fluctuations are the greatest. During the low water season in July and August, the flow has dropped as low as 12 second-feet since 1917, when accurate records were first kept; and, from the accounts of early …