Keeping Grass Green in a Drought
Two weeks ago I asked if anyone had succeeded in keeping a lawn green despite watering restrictions. Here are some of your responses: Where we live, it’s much drier than most anywhere in Los Angeles...
Category Archives: Irrigation
California’s Perpetual Drought
Note: the following was written in February, 2018. Last April, California’s governor declared, “The drought emergency is over,” but already, less than a year later, in the middle of a warm, dry win...
The Benefits of Rain
How long has it been since we had rain like this? A long, long time. So long, in fact, I had forgotten what a significantly rainy winter could do for a garden. The beneficial effects of this wet wi...
MP Rotators Save 30% Water
Imagine that, simply by changing your sprinkler nozzles, you could reduce your lawn and garden water bill by 30 percent. Now imagine that in addition to using significantly less water, you could elim...
Real Gardeners Use Hoses, Not Sprinklers
If you want to develop a real understanding of your plants, consider watering them up close with a hose. Many gardeners are fed up with sprinklers since they water too much or too little, provide ina...
Spring Time is Sprinkler Tune-Up Time
Hot weather is already here, and you can sense the fear and trembling in gardeners’ hearts. You cannot rely on rain anymore to get everything soaked, nor on cool weather to keep the soil from d...
Rain in the Garden
Mild winters have brought so many people to Southern California that there is not enough water – thanks to those same mild winters – to sustain them and their gardens. Were it not for sno...
TreePeople
You might think of TreePeople as an organization whose sole mission is to plant more trees in Los Angeles. While that may have been true when the organization was founded four decades ago, and TreePe...
Leaf Miners & Rain Sensors
LARVAE OF LEAFMINER MOTHS ATTACK CITRUS: From Chatsworth to Burbank, I have been receiving reports of curled citrus leaves accompanied by squiggly trails in the foliage. The party responsible for thi...
Next Generation of Sprinklers
A recent column addressing the increased use of evapo-transpiration sprinkler system controllers – self-programming and self-adjusting automatic time clocks – presented an incomplete pict...
