Drought-friendly landscaping, smarter irrigation, rainwater collection, and seasonal outdoor routines. Stories and how-tos for keeping gardens, lawns, and balconies thriving with far less water.
A month by month sprinkler schedule built around evapotranspiration and your zones' real precipitation rate, with the math to cut outdoor water…
Overhead sprinklers waste 30 to 50 percent of what they throw. Drip lands 90 percent in the root zone. Here is the…
Raising the mower deck one inch changes soil temperature, root depth, and weekly irrigation demand. Here is what to set for your…
The defining feature of American suburban lawns is uniform summer greenness. Houses are bought and sold partly on the appearance of their…
A rain garden is a shallow planted depression, typically 6 to 12 inches deep, designed to capture and slowly infiltrate runoff from…
Smart irrigation controllers have had a complicated history. The first generation, around a decade ago, was full of clunky interfaces, unreliable weather…
Outdoor water conservation is mostly about timing. The same garden, with the same plants and the same household, can use radically different…
Summer is when residential water bills double, sometimes triple, over their winter baseline. The reason is almost always outdoor: irrigation, pools, hose…
Every spring, after the last hard freeze, before the irrigation systems come back online for the year, the outdoor plumbing on a…
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