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Even if the ground is saturated, plants still will absorb more of the first inch than the 5th.
by pilom 10y ago
Even if the ground is saturated, plants still will absorb more of the first inch than the 5th.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI don't think that's right. If the ground is saturated, the plants won't absorb any of it, because it won't sink into the ground at all, because the ground is saturated. (That is, unless you're talking about plants absorbing water from their leaves directly, before the water hits the ground. I don't know that plants do that when their roots already have plenty of water, but I also don't know that they don't.)