SoilIQ – Soil Temperature

SoilIQ 2.5.5: Two Answers Is One Too Many The last update taught half the app to read your soil type, and said so. This one finishes the job. Watering, mowing and the best day to plant now account for whether your ground is sandy, loamy or heavy clay, so the app no longer gives two different answers about the same soil on the same screen. And where it cannot tell what your soil is, it now says nothing instead of showing a number that looks like an answer. What's new: - Every moisture reading in the app is now judged against your own soil. The same number means a soaked garden in sand and a thirsty one in clay, and every screen now knows the difference. - Where the soil survey has no data for your address, moisture is left out rather than shown as a colour coded number. An honest gap is more useful than a confident guess. - Watering reminders can now be found and turned off. Settings lists every reminder you have, with its garden, its crop and its time, and a Stop button on each. You can reach it whether or not you subscribe. - The Soil Health card stops answering when it has nothing to answer with. A reading it cannot judge now shows a dash rather than a tick or a cross. - The Soil Health card reads one soil and one temperature throughout, so the ring and the four readings beneath it can no longer disagree. - If you decline the location prompt, the app now tells you what happened and offers a way forward, instead of waiting quietly forever. - The moisture chart is scaled to what your soil can actually hold, so a waterlogged reading sits clearly above the wet line instead of at the top of the chart. Fixes and improvements: - The Today screen could tell you to plant now while saying, a few lines below, that the soil was dry. The planting prompt now reads the same soil as the rest of the app, and tells you what is missing instead. - A watering reminder could keep arriving for a garden you no longer have saved, with no way to stop it except turning off watering reminders altogether. - A soaked lawn could read that moisture was holding well, and the advice to stay off wet ground could not be reached at all. - One screen showed two different counts of good planting days, and days later in the forecast were called ideal with no moisture data behind them. - Sandy ground could show a healthy moisture tick while the soil was holding more water than it can drain. - A moisture percentage was shown, and colour coded, for places where there was no soil data to interpret it. - A missing soil temperature produced a red cross in one place and a dash in another, on the same card. - The seedling frost card quoted a colder temperature than the warning it appeared on. - Six crop tips gave a planting temperature that disagreed with the crop's own. Watering, mowing and planting advice may read differently after this update, because they now account for your soil type rather than one range applied to every garden. Where the soil survey cannot tell us what your ground is, moisture is left out of the advice rather than guessed at. Stop Guessing. Plant by Soil.