Wednesday, 12 April 2017
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Hi experts,
Am looking forward to hearing your experience while running the watering schedule..
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Hi Nibal,

This is not a simple question to answer. Every landscape or farm is different, with different planting schemes or crops, in different climates, with different irrigation methods.

For example, take where I live in Seattle. Mature shrub beds need irrigating once or twice per month in the summer, and lawns every other day. Brand new plantings and lawns need more frequent watering. And we don't need irrigation at all from October through April.

Anybody's irrigation schedule is informed by plant species, exposure, local climate conditions, (including ET rates and rain fall), and irrigation method. Farms, which are all about production, have other requirements.

The Irrigation Association has lots of material available regarding irrigation design and management. Take a look.

And keep asking questions and digging for answers. Good luck!
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Hi Nibal,

This is not a simple question to answer. Every landscape or farm is different, with different planting schemes or crops, in different climates, with different irrigation methods.

For example, take where I live in Seattle. Mature shrub beds need irrigating once or twice per month in the summer, and lawns every other day. Brand new plantings and lawns need more frequent watering. And we don't need irrigation at all from October through April.

Anybody's irrigation schedule is informed by plant species, exposure, local climate conditions, (including ET rates and rain fall), and irrigation method. Farms, which are all about production, have other requirements.

The Irrigation Association has lots of material available regarding irrigation design and management. Take a look.

And keep asking questions and digging for answers. Good luck!
Ha! Yes. We don't have drought issues here very often, so politics and and so forth aren't so much an issue. But to paraphrase Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation): All you have are facts and science, and people hate facts and science!
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