dedraic
07-30-2009, 07:57 PM
I've recently been toying with the idea of putting a pond in the backyard, mostly because I haven't run one before. The actual practical part of the pond I've gotten down pretty well, and I have a design in mind which can be scaled up or down.
My question is, how big would a pond have to be in order to significantly increase the humidity around itself? There's a few plants I'd like to try my hand at growing that prefer a more humid atmosphere, and I was wondering if this could be accomplished in a practical manner with a pond, since I don't have the cash or the space to open a greenhouse on this property.
Edit: I figured this would go here, if it should be somewhere else just move it. It'd be totally bitchin' if someone could even give me the right direction to move into for the equations I'd need. I can plug numbers, but I'm kind of wrapped up in about six projects right now, and this is enough outside my area of expertise that I have no clue how I'd go about even finding the equations I'd need.
My question is, how big would a pond have to be in order to significantly increase the humidity around itself? There's a few plants I'd like to try my hand at growing that prefer a more humid atmosphere, and I was wondering if this could be accomplished in a practical manner with a pond, since I don't have the cash or the space to open a greenhouse on this property.
Edit: I figured this would go here, if it should be somewhere else just move it. It'd be totally bitchin' if someone could even give me the right direction to move into for the equations I'd need. I can plug numbers, but I'm kind of wrapped up in about six projects right now, and this is enough outside my area of expertise that I have no clue how I'd go about even finding the equations I'd need.