Water Requirements and Crop Coefficients of Drip-irrigated Strawberry Plants

Studies were conducted for three production seasons between 1988 and 1991 to measure water use of drip- irrigated strawberry plants and to evaluate the effects of soil tension management level on fruit yield and drip irrigation water requirement. Water balance lysimeters were designed and installed to measure monthly water requirements of drip- irrigated strawberry plants. Drip-irrigated strawberry plots that were established next to the lysimeter facility used tensiometers to schedule irrigations with treatment management levels of 5, 10, and 15 kPa of soil tension.