In order to monitor the soil temperature and WVC under the mulches, in 1st cycle, three “Decagon 5TM” probes were placed one ach modality, at three different depths, 10, 20 and 30 cm. In the2nd cycle, the soil monitoring followed the same procedure for allmulches but only two depths were monitored, 10 and 20 cm, sinceit is the area on which 50 to 90% of the roots are located (Palha et al.,2005).