Step 2: Creating A Research Study

After reading through the tips from Step 1, I decided to study the correlation between water conservation and gardening. There was a good deal of tips related to gardening, see. In other words, I wanted to answer the question:

To what degree do people take water conservation into account while gardening?

I decided to ask gardeners. This included folk who weren't quite as good at the hobby as others. Skill level wasn't exactly relevant, as the questions I wanted to address weren't related to it. They were rather related to things that all gardeners do, such as the time of day when irrigation occurs and what water is used. All in all, I collected my queries into the handful below: 

1. On a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being not at all and 10 being the top priority) how much did you consider water conservation while landscaping?
2. What kind of plants have you planted (if any?) Flowering plants, produce, shrubs & bushes, something else entirely or a combination of the aforementioned types?
3. What are the origins of the plants you have planted (if any)? Are your plants native to Massachusetts, the United States generally, or are they foreign? Do you know the origin of your plants, or do you perhaps cultivate a mixture of the aforementioned types?
4. What method do you to irrigate your plants? Do you water them by hand (with a jug, hose, etc.), with sprinklers, an automatic irrigation system, a combination or something else entirely?
5. What kind of water do you use in irrigation? Is it tap water, filtered water, uncollected rainwater, collected rainwater, a combination of the aforementioned types or something entirely different?
6. When do you irrigate your plants? Is it in the early morning, morning before noon, around noon, afternoon, evening or night?
7. How often do you irrigate your plants? Is it once per day, multiple times per day, once per week, or multiple times per week? Or it is something not previously mentioned?

I collected these questions together and turned them into a Google Form. (The form itself is here.) Then, I began the survey!

Down here are the unfinished, unfancy versions of my survey questions. I hope they're readable enough!