I do not like drip systems, especially those placed underneath landscape fabric or a layer of mulch. You can’t see what is happening and you will lose plants before you discover you have a problem. I ...

Are you a gardener who’s getting tired of the time and money it takes to keep it watered? Have you ever thought about creating your own irrigation system? Imagine a garden that waters itself. Sounds ...

Calibrating or determining the rate of water your sprinkler system applies is an easy job. Here’s how to do it: Obtain 5 to 10 straight-sided empty cans such as tuna fish or soup cans. Place the ...

The vegetables will be alive when [Dillon Nichols] returns from vacation thanks to this automatic watering controller that he built. This is the second iteration of the project, and deals mainly with ...

Calibrating your sprinkler system is easy, and it is a must in order to water your lawn and landscape correctly. Here's how to do it. Obtain five to 10 straight-sided cans. Empty tuna fish or soup ...

Hop over to Kickstarter this morning and you'll see the smart gardening platform the Eve Ecosystem launched its crowd-funding campaign. Built specifically to work with the SmartThings home automation ...

Use wick watering to keep your plants hydrated. Self watering wick systems are simple to assemble, and they use less water than other methods. Wick watering is a lesser-known method of efficient ...

In Japan, they call it kaizen. It’s the process of making continuous small improvements. Here it’s spoken by consultants streamlining manufacturing practices, but for Carl Rupprecht, kaizen describes ...

I finally had an automatic irrigation system installed after years of pulling hoses. How should I operate my new system for maximum efficiency? I see many of my neighbors irrigating every day. Is that ...

FAIRBANKS — If you enjoy unwinding, unkinking and dragging hoses hither and thither in your yard and garden or lugging watering cans around, then stop reading. If you want to save water and fertilizer ...