Greenthumb Irrigation Inc.

In reference to yesterday’s post, did you know that a typical watering schedule should be adjusted almost daily to ensure a healthy landscape? The vast majority of us overwater, resulting in a waste of a precious resource and an unnecessary increase in your water bill. By applying only as much water as needed throughout the season, with the installation of either a Hunter Solar Sync onsite weather station or Hydrawise web-based software with Predictive Watering, you can expect a 30-50% reduction on your water bill! Ask us which option may work best for you.

For anyone who has a basic automated irrigation timer/controller, how many times during the season do you make programming adjustments based on changes to weather conditions? 1. Never, I program it in the early spring and never touch it again until fall shutdown 2. Once, when summer temps arrive... 3. Twice, when summer temps arrive and again as temps cool down in late summer 4. Three or more times per season Why do we ask? Stay tuned, we will post our answer tomorrow.

A common question we are asked: How much water should I apply to my landscape? As a general rule, 1 inch of water per week is the norm. In order to achieve this you must know your sprinkler heads’ application rate. With our industry knowledge and a little help from our Run Time Calculator, we can create an efficient watering schedule for your particular landscape, based on your type of sprinkler heads, as well as considering site specific details such as plant material, soil type, sun exposure, etc.

Spring is here! Well at least the calendar says it is. Are you interested in saving up to 50% in water usage on your landscape? We offer affordable Water Management services for commercial and residential landscape irrigation systems using Hunter Industries’ Hydrawise web-based software. Please check out the short video, and contact us with any questions.