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Ways to Water: Calibrate your System

by Julia Sirchia
June 29, 2024

How Efficient are Your Irrigation Practices? A human would need 16,000 gallons of water for a lifetime. Your landscape needs 625 gallons of water for every 1000 square feet. How are you doing on your irrigation efficiency? Are you Managing ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Water
Tags: Efficient Irrigaiton, Efficient Irrigation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening, Home Landscapes, Irrigation, Overhead Irrigation, Smart Irrigation, Smart Landscape, Spriklers, Water, Ways To Water

Ways to Water: Seasonality and Irrigation Requirements

by Julia Sirchia
June 28, 2024

Timing Considering seasonality is important in the home garden and landscape. Many plants have natural, internal clocks that sync with the seasons. Some grow in the warmer months and become dormant (think of a bear hibernating) in the cooler ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Water
Tags: Efficient Irrigation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscape, Irrigation, Overhead Irrigation, Smart Irrigation, Water, Ways To Water

Ways to Water: Efficient Overhead Irrigation

by Julia Sirchia
June 26, 2024

Efficient Watering Efficient watering wets only the root zone and does not allow water to run off. If you are seeing water running off from your landscape, you are watering too much. Always water on an “as needed” basis. Too much water ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Water
Tags: Efficient Irrigation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Sprinklers, Ways To Water
Lemon trees with micro irrigation system

Ways to water: Overhead Irrigation

by Julia Sirchia
June 25, 2024

What is Overhead Irrigation? When we say 'overhead' irrigation, it refers to any system or cultural practice that describes irrigating from above. Most commonly, this term refers to sprinklers. Sprinklers spray water over a broad area for uniform ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening, Home Landscape, Horticulture, Irrigation, Saving Water, Smart Irrigation, UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Office, Water Wise, Ways To Water

Ways to Water: Hand watering

by Julia Sirchia
June 20, 2024

What is the go-to way you water your garden? In this series we will explore the importance of watering your plants, or irrigation. There are several methods of watering the garden, one of these methods is hand watering. What is hand watering? Hand ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Tags: #RightPlantRightPlace, #SaveWaterFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Gardening, Gardens, Handwatering, Horticulture, Irrigation, Landscape, Landscaping, Overhead Irrigation, Resilient Landscaping, Saving Water, Smart Irrigation, UF/IFAS Pasco Extension Office, Water Conservation, Water Wise, Ways To Water

Ways to water: Micro-irrigation

by Julia Sirchia
June 11, 2024

What is Drip Irrigation? Instead of showering plants with water from above like sprinklers, micro-irrigation delivers water to the base of the plant. This type of irrigation consists of drip, micro-sprinklers, and bubblers. Drip lines are a ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture
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