What is drip irrigation: A low-pressure system that delivers water directly to plant roots, reducing evaporation and runoff while improving efficiency. Why it matters: It can save a typical home over ...

Automatic drip watering systems make it possible to install landscapes during summer drought. Landscape planting in summer has always been risky. Newly-installed plants need frequent, sometimes daily ...

One saves more water than the other.

Sprinklers, which spray water into the air where it is easily evaporated or lost to the wind, are inherently inefficient. They spread water over large areas, regardless of whether there are roots ...

August is the month for two garden W’s: weeding and watering. Regular attention to both keeps a vegetable or flower garden pretty and productive well into autumn. For now, let’s look at watering. It’s ...

The gardener who can do a thorough job of watering with hose in hand is rare indeed. Assuming that the hose spews out about 3 gallons per minute in a circle about 4 feet in diameter, I roughly ...

Shadow Creek golf course in North Las Vegas, Nevada, features 100 acres of naturalized areas comprised of tall grasses and more than 6,000 planted pine trees. The irrigation system in these ...

TONOPAH, AZ — With a water shortage already an issue in Arizona, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is looking for new ways to conserve water for farming, and it may have found one. CAP and others are ...

Precision Agriculture business group Netafim, announced today the results of a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study showing that coffee grown with drip irrigation demonstrates significant ...