10 Tips For Busy Gardeners, not sure how you are going to find time to save water and keep your garden beautiful at the same time. Making some simple, inexpensive changes to improve the way you water your landscape and you will save water and money too.
They save water, save money, and set a schedule for your irrigation that helps your… Read more »
At the Town of Prescott Valley, the goal was to maintain high-quality turfgrass and healthy plants, while being water wise and efficient in usage. The Parks & Recreation department maintains roughly 350 acres of parks and open spaces. Within that is about 45 acres of irrigated turf, split up between 18 different sites all around town, as well as thousands of shrubs and trees. In Prescott Valley’s… Read more »
Tips to keep your cut flower fresh like flowers in your home are beneficial for your well-being. Several scientific studies show the benefits of flowers and plants to patients recovering from surgery. One of my favorites is found here. When our gardens are full of flowers, it is fun to cut some of them and bring them indoors. It’s not so fun to see them drooping and dying just a day or… Read more »
Jain Logic features delivers real-time data from field sensors to any connected internet device giving growers the opportunity to observe water moving through their soil and make better water management decisions. This allows growers to optimize water consumption, reduce costs, improve productivity and the capability to monitor and control farm operations from a mobile device. Recently Jain developed 4… Read more »
Each meal is a choice and there are over 100 easy ways to save water, but many of us will have to look past the easy ways if we are going to solve the water crisis. The type of food we consume and beverages we drink make a significant impact on water use. Some simple changes in what we eat and drink combined with other easy ways to change are necessary to… Read more »
Summer is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start maintaining your yard this summer and prepare your yard for what’s to come – the extreme summer heat. Every gardener and homeowner knows the struggles of keeping their grass green all summer and maintaining a healthy, beautiful lawn.
Lucky for you, this short but comprehensive guide consists of almost everything you need to know to ready your lawn for the upcoming… Read more »
San Diego saves water due to water shortages and drought water rates in San Diego have increased 27% since 2015 and now that we have more water in the form of rain no one is talking about decreasing rates. In fact, San Diego is scheduled for another increase later this year. This is a trend repeating itself across the country. The new norm is drought – We are either coming out of drought or… Read more »
If a single home, by switching to smart irrigation, can save enough water (more than all of its low flow faucets, showers and toilets combined), imagine how much water you could save enough water with smart irrigation when you are irrigating landscapes on 100 million square feet of real estate. Could the savings be nationally significant? Can we save enough water to support enough food for a small nation? That’s what one major U.S. bank… Read more »
Apparently, plant blindness is a thing, and last week we learned lots about it from this article. This week to help you overcome any plant blindness you may be experiencing we put together a quiz to test your ability to identify eight plants. This is a simple test using common names, but it’s a start to opening up the great big world of plants available to all of us every day. Good… Read more »
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