Watering

[Pipe Line]

Need a little advice now that I'm almost a month deep on the in ground sprinkler system. To give a little context but not too much, I live in Sarpy County, NE. The way my house sits in the summer time, south side of the house gets baked in the sun during the day, north side really doesn't due to my neighbors' trees.

Right now, I have them set to run every day. I have 7 total zones. 2 sidewalk zones are set to run 5 minutes a piece, everything else at 10 minutes. Before, when I was doing the manual in ground, I was doing it every other day, 15-20 minutes a piece, but less spots were getting watered consistently, unlike now. Our farm does not have in ground sprinklers around the house, so I can't compare off of that, but my father in law has them and his lawn looks great. He waters everyday as well. However, I saw a photo on twitter of a journalist I believe that lives in Lincoln that @Faux Sean Callahan commented on, feel like it was Schaefer's lawn? and he was pretty adamant on the caption that every other day for about 20 minutes was all that was needed, and whoever's that was looked great.

Also got a general letter in the mail from Sarpy County saying basically everyone should be alternating days, but be on an every other day schedule as well.


Going to do a little research today but for those who live in Nebraska/Omaha area, or surrounding areas that have in ground systems, how often are you watering and for how long in each spot? Just want to get this dialed in for good and let it ride consistently for the rest of the year.

 

[Tyneb23]

My house sits on golf course and the west side gets smoked. My sprinkler guy says run them 3x a week for 30 min per zone. That seems to do the trick. Also mow as high as you can to allow the roots to get deeper.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

Need a little advice now that I'm almost a month deep on the in ground sprinkler system. To give a little context but not too much, I live in Sarpy County, NE. The way my house sits in the summer time, south side of the house gets baked in the sun during the day, north side really doesn't due to my neighbors' trees.

Right now, I have them set to run every day. I have 7 total zones. 2 sidewalk zones are set to run 5 minutes a piece, everything else at 10 minutes. Before, when I was doing the manual in ground, I was doing it every other day, 15-20 minutes a piece, but less spots were getting watered consistently, unlike now. Our farm does not have in ground sprinklers around the house, so I can't compare off of that, but my father in law has them and his lawn looks great. He waters everyday as well. However, I saw a photo on twitter of a journalist I believe that lives in Lincoln that @Faux Sean Callahan commented on, feel like it was Schaefer's lawn? and he was pretty adamant on the caption that every other day for about 20 minutes was all that was needed, and whoever's that was looked great.

Also got a general letter in the mail from Sarpy County saying basically everyone should be alternating days, but be on an every other day schedule as well.


Going to do a little research today but for those who live in Nebraska/Omaha area, or surrounding areas that have in ground systems, how often are you watering and for how long in each spot? Just want to get this dialed in for good and let it ride consistently for the rest of the year.

You are better off watering deep and infrequent. Do it every 2/3 days but bump it up.

You can't just do every zone 10 mins because the heads of disperse different amounts of water.

My rule of thumb is 30 mins for the rotator head and the head that fans but status still 15 mins ish...

If you have an area that gets shade I'd pull it back a touch

 

[Baron Winnebago]

3x a week, 25 minutes per zone. My neighbors lawn who looks the best is on like 4 times a day 2 times a week

 

[Adolph Coors]

mine is set to 7 days a week- 35 minutes a zone. i think i am about caught back up from how dry we were and i may go down to every other day. im on my own water tho

 

[Dell Husker]

Need a little advice now that I'm almost a month deep on the in ground sprinkler system. To give a little context but not too much, I live in Sarpy County, NE. The way my house sits in the summer time, south side of the house gets baked in the sun during the day, north side really doesn't due to my neighbors' trees.

Right now, I have them set to run every day. I have 7 total zones. 2 sidewalk zones are set to run 5 minutes a piece, everything else at 10 minutes. Before, when I was doing the manual in ground, I was doing it every other day, 15-20 minutes a piece, but less spots were getting watered consistently, unlike now. Our farm does not have in ground sprinklers around the house, so I can't compare off of that, but my father in law has them and his lawn looks great. He waters everyday as well. However, I saw a photo on twitter of a journalist I believe that lives in Lincoln that @Faux Sean Callahan commented on, feel like it was Schaefer's lawn? and he was pretty adamant on the caption that every other day for about 20 minutes was all that was needed, and whoever's that was looked great.

Also got a general letter in the mail from Sarpy County saying basically everyone should be alternating days, but be on an every other day schedule as well.


Going to do a little research today but for those who live in Nebraska/Omaha area, or surrounding areas that have in ground systems, how often are you watering and for how long in each spot? Just want to get this dialed in for good and let it ride consistently for the rest of the year.

I don’t have underground sprinklers but I’m in a Facebook group “Lawn Care Nuts”. I’d highly recommend checking it out and reading through. Lot of good posts from people who are doing it every day.

 

[Pipe Line]

You are better off watering deep and infrequent. Do it every 2/3 days but bump it up.

You can't just do every zone 10 mins because the heads of disperse different amounts of water.

My rule of thumb is 30 mins for the rotator head and the head that fans but status still 15 mins ish...

If you have an area that gets shade I'd pull it back a touch

Stellar video. Preciate you. Yep definitely need to make some adjustments this evening

 

[Pipe Line]

I don’t have underground sprinklers but I’m in a Facebook group “Lawn Care Nuts”. I’d highly recommend checking it out and reading through. Lot of good posts from people who are doing it every day.

Outstanding, thank you. Going to check that out now

 

[Pipe Line]

mine is set to 7 days a week- 35 minutes a zone. i think i am about caught back up from how dry we were and i may go down to every other day. im on my own water tho

What general area do you live at?

 

[Pipe Line]

My house sits on golf course and the west side gets smoked. My sprinkler guy says run them 3x a week for 30 min per zone. That seems to do the trick. Also mow as high as you can to allow the roots to get deeper.

My goal for the rest of this summer and next year is to get the south side and side walks to look better. Haven't been able to get water consistently there for years and it gets cooked in the summer so it doesn't look great compared to other parts.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

My goal for the rest of this summer and next year is to get the south side and side walks to look better. Haven't been able to get water consistently there for years and it gets cooked in the summer so it doesn't look great compared to other parts.

Do you use an edger along the sidewalks?

 

[Pipe Line]

Do you use an edger along the sidewalks?

I do, did it on Tuesday morning. My goal is once a month.

 

[Adolph Coors]

What general area do you live at?

BFE

jk south central nebraska

 

[Dell Husker]

Outstanding, thank you. Going to check that out now

There’s also a Nebraska Lawn Care Nuts but it has a lot less members. The country wide one has 130k members.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

I do, did it on Tuesday morning. My goal is once a month.

Once a month??? Water for 30 minutes from 6-10 each morning. Yard will recover

 

[Pipe Line]

Once a month??? Water for 30 minutes from 6-10 each morning. Yard will recover

I do trim after mowing

 

[Pipe Line]

There’s also a Nebraska Lawn Care Nuts but it has a lot less members. The country wide one has 130k members.

Got accepted into Lawn Care Nuts, waiting on approval from Nebraska Lawn Care Nuts

 

[lee_carvallo_12]

Do you use an edger along the sidewalks?

Once a month??? Water for 30 minutes from 6-10 each morning. Yard will recover

How's your lawn looking this year, Tony? I know landscapers usually neglect their own with the focus being on their clients.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

How's your lawn looking this year, Tony? I know landscapers usually neglect their own with the focus being on their clients.

Best yard of all time

 

[Pipe Line]

Yep definitely need some adjustments. So Sarpy letter said watering schedule should TU-THURS-SAT for my home address. Do we think, just ball parking here, an average of 20 minutes a zone doing that schedule, plus a Sunday, would be more beneficial than what I'm doing now? Maybe see how that does for 4-6 weeks then re-assess from there?


So it would look like TU-THURS-SAT-SUN about 20 minutes each zone?