Water-Saving Irrigation Methods for Your Yard
Here are a few water-saving tips for your irrigation system.
A key principle of a water-wise irrigation system is adopting sustainable practices. Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource and needs to be conserved. If current climate trends continue, gardeners worldwide can face severe water shortages and expect to reduce water use for every purpose. Now more than ever, it is critical to adopt more eco-friendly practices when watering and maintaining your property. Here are a few water-saving tips for your irrigation system.
Zoning Your Garden
Through an efficient irrigation system, you can use water wisely in your garden and help restore the resources. An automatic underground system can divide the job of watering the yard into zones. These zones are smaller areas containing vegetation that require a unique amount of water regularly.
The selection of vegetation in these zones is based on their water requirement. For instance, one zone can be dedicated to hardy plants for your site’s moisture conditions, so they will need little or no watering over time. Another zone can have plants that need extra watering grouped together, to which you can run the end of a drain spout. Yet another zone can contain drought-tolerant landscaping plants supported with a drip irrigation system, where little pipes with holes above the ground drip water whenever the plants need it.
Calibrating Your Sprinkler System
To maintain a healthy lawn and garden, you need to determine the length of time for running the irrigation system in every zone. The rate varies from location to location. While clay soil thrives at only a 1/2-inch rate, sandy soil may need 3/4-inch water since this soil type cannot hold water for long. A sustainable garden should incorporate the right rate to neither overwater nor water too little.
Irrigate at the Proper Time
The best time to irrigate your lawn and garden is early in the morning, between 4 am, and 8 am. During this time, the water will soak easily into the soil and be absorbed by the roots. After 8 am, the warm temperature evaporates excess moisture off the leaf blades. Irrigating in the early morning hours is a good idea for this and many other reasons. Additionally, water that remains on the leaf blades can cause turf diseases. If watering at night is your only option, do so instead of droughting them. Again, watering frequency depends on the soil. If the soil is overly dry, it means running water through it several times daily.
Choose Sposato Irrigation
Sposato Irrigation is uniquely positioned to offer high-quality, affordable, and reliable irrigation services to homeowners and business owners in Sussex County, Milton, Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Bethany Beach, Fenwick Island, Ocean View, Millsboro, Dagsboro, and Ocean City, MD. Thanks to our expertise, innovation and decades of professional experience, we can meet the needs of large properties and small gardens. To learn more about our irrigation installation, LED landscape lighting, and commercial irrigation maintenance services, contact us today. We can be reached at 302-645-4773. Also, check us out on Facebook and Twitter.
