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CategoriesHow To Manage Water Across Multiple Controllers
Manage Water Across Multiple Controllers
Managing water accurately and consistently across multiple irrigation controllers is an age-old dilemma for landscapers. It’s a labor intensive part in the upkeep of a healthy, well-manicured, and presentable landscape, requiring considerable time and resource costs.
ETwater technology brings significant time savings and operational efficiencies to multi-controller management and makes it easier to manage water across… Read more »
5 Key Benefits Of Vermicomposting
Benefits of vermicomposting: the average American throws out 4.5 pounds of trash every single day. It may not seem all that much, but with over 300 million people in the United States. That is roughly 728,000 tons of daily garbage.What makes this really bad is according to the Solano Center for Environmental Innovation over 70% of what goes into landfills could be recycled or used for compost.
Composting is the speeding up of the natural… Read more »
7 Ways To Beat Heat Stress For Plants
Managing heat stress for plants makes a big improvement in how your landscape looks. With such unusually high heat all across the nation, we need to take a few extra steps to keep our landscapes healthy. Below is a quick list of things you can do today to make your landscape thrive in the heat.
They are water-efficient practices that help your landscape stay healthier in the heat, best heat stress for plants:
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4 Tips For Painting Your Lawn Green
If you still want a green lawn but don’t want to pay the high cost for water , or have water restrictions that don’t allow for you to keep it green or maybe you just want to do your part for water conservation, painting your lawn green is an option. Aesthetically I believe having your lawn all one color is important. I don’t think it matters much if that color is all brown… Read more »
4 Ways To Kill Your Lawn
Everyday I read about the benefits to kill your lawn and converting turf to a more drought tolerant landscape or better yet, food. However, even my friends who claim to have no green thumb at all still have a hard time killing turf.
Quick Guide: Recycled Water
As fresh water supplies dwindle and the cost per gallon rises, we have to be vigilant about how much we use and how we use water. One way to conserve fresh water is to use alternative water sources like rainwater, air conditioning condensate, stormwater run-off and recycled water for landscape irrigation. Initiatives such as the United States Green Building Council’s LEED Program are driving the use of alternative water sources and the development… Read more »
A Quick Guide for Storing Fruits and Vegetables
A few years ago I heard Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, from IBM Big Green Innovation speak about water. Peter quickly grabbed everyone’s attention when he pointed out 40% of the food grown in the United States goes uneaten. This food is fruit and vegetables that takes so much water to grow. For those of us in the water conservation business our heads were quickly trying to calculate how much water was being… Read more »
5 Simple Solutions For Saving Water
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” ― Albert Einstein Here are five of my favorite simple ways to save water. Simple, creative solutions usually surprise us because we associate simple with easy and believe easy wont work long term. We appreciate simple solutions because they often work well. These solutions are simple, across the board solutions (not just irrigation) that make a big impact reducing the amount… Read more »
5 Causes Of Drought
The “new normal” of water management across the United States suggests we need to consider the regions we live in are either heading into a drought or coming out of a drought.