University Project - Survey Required Please Help

 
Hi Guys,


My name is Matt Oakley and I am a final year Product design Engineer at
Loughborough University. I am currently starting a project to design a
product, which aides plant watering. I need some customer focused
research and would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time. I have
setup a web based survey, which takes only a few minutes and is very
simple. It can be found at the folowing address:


'Market Research - Product Template Survey'
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q978N76 )


I hope you can help.

Thanks in advance,

Matt




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Matt_UniStudent

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Matt_UniStudent wrote:

Question #1

1. How often do you water plants in your garden?

Daily
2-3 Time per Week
Weekly
Monthly
Never

The best answer is not offered.  Before you start to design a watering
system you should probably know why this is so.

The best answer is "When it is needed" which for any garden depends on the
time of year and weather.  Look up 'evapotranspiration'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evapotranspiration

 In my case the frequency would vary from 3 days to 90 days.  But if people
know that and live in that sort of climate your product has no market.  But
this is a well trodden path you are going down so nothing new there.

David

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 On 10/21/2011 4:08 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:

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You had previously mentioned trimming back foliage to cut down on water
loss and that has gotten me thinking about my hydrangeas.

The Oak Leaf is well established and does well, but my regular old
hydrangea often has droopy leaves. It's in a shady protected spot with
little direct sun, and has been in for a few years, but this need for
water persists.

  Should I thin it out, or do you have any other suggestions?

  With water over 2 cents/gallon, I'm in a water conservation mode.

  Jeff
Atlanta, Piedmont 7B

 j wrote:

Hydrangeas love/need water.  I don't grow them but they do need trimming
from time to time to keep them compact.  If you do this at a time that
doesn't interfere with flowering you should get some improvement.  Other
than that mulch heavily and avoid high nitrogen fertiliser that will put on
lots of soft leafy growth.  Or replace them with a less water-needy shrub.


You could try capturing your roof water but to attempt to do a whole garden
you need to have large tanks/ponds and to rearrange your roof plumbing so it
may not be cost effective, particlaurly if you pay somebody to do it.  The
common idea of running a downpipe into a 200 litre (50 gal US) drum is cheap
and appealing but only gives enough to water a few tubs or a *very* small
plot.

David