3 Proven tips that save landscape water - Tip 1

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Tip 1. Prevent Run-Off!

This is the final posting of a series of 4 posts about saving landscape water. We started from the bottom of the list and worked our way up. Here is tip #1.

Obviously, run-off is wasteful. Water that doesn't reach the root depth of the soil does your plants no good. Run-off robs the soil of nutrients and causes pollution by carrying chemicals to the storm drains.

Run-off occurs when you put more water on the soil than it can absorb. The soil type and slope play a major factor here. Water runs off quicker on clay soil and steeper slopes. Since the amount of water your sprinkler system puts down on your landscape in a minute is fixed, the only thing you can do to prevent run off, in short of changing your sprinklers, is to break the watering cycles into shorter time windows.

You can find a list of tools that can help adjust your watering schedules to prevent run-off. Please subscribe to our blog to be notified when we post the rest of the "3 Proven tips that save landscape water" series.


To sum it all up, make sure you adjust your watering schedules based on changing seasons, soil type, plant type, slope, sprinkler type and most importantly your location.

Tools that can help:

AuditorSoft: offers tools that professional landscapers, irrigation experts, HOA, apartment and other facility managers utilize to save landscape water. You can click here to read more about the solution details at AuditorSoft reseller GreenLeaf.com's web site.

Irrigation Water Management Society: is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the wise and efficient use of water. You can click here to use their online landscape irrigation budget calculators.