Watering, hoses & irrigation
Watering, hoses & irrigation
Two-day restrictions, how much turf needs, timers, heads and drip line.
Watering, hoses & irrigation
Watering wrong causes more lawn problems here than watering too little. Sand drains fast, but a timer that keeps running through the wet season is what grows fungus.
Two days a week (most of the year)
South Florida water restrictions generally allow two irrigation days a week, before 10am or after 4pm. Odd/even addresses get different days — check your city's current schedule.
3/4 inch per week, in two soakings
Deep and infrequent beats daily sprinkles. Put a tuna can on the lawn and time how long your zone takes to fill it about 3/8" — that's one cycle.
Rain sensor or smart timer
Required on Florida irrigation systems and the easiest money you'll save. A wet-season timer that keeps running is the #1 cause of fungus in a lawn.
Well water staining
Iron in well water rust-stains driveways, walls and screen cages. Aim heads away from the house or add an inline filter — and keep a rust remover on hand.
Hoses in the sun
UV and heat destroy vinyl hoses in a season here. Rubber or hybrid hoses cost more once instead of a little every year, and a reel out of the sun doubles their life.
Drip and micro-irrigation
For beds, containers and hedges, drip puts water at the root and keeps foliage dry — which means less fungus. Easy to assemble from parts on our shelf.
Salt spray and coastal lots
East of the Intracoastal, rinse foliage on the ocean side after windy days and choose salt-tolerant plants — sea grape, cocoplum, buttonwood, dune sunflower.
We stock sprinkler heads, nozzles, risers, PVC and fittings, funny pipe, timers and solenoids — bring the broken part in and we'll match it.