Sarasota irrigation maintenance for the month of October. Now that the temparature is dropping below 90 degrees turning the run times down on your system will benefit the landscape and turf. Here are some tips on what to do to insure effeciency and how not to waste water. 1. Make sure irrigation system is functioning properly. 2. Convert tree and shrub beds to micro irrigation and seperate zones from turf. 3. Replenish mulch in plant beds. 4.Plant drought tolerant plants and shade trees. Sarasota water conservation is very important to all of us especially in times of drought. Over watering not only wast our resources but also leaches nitrogen and pesticides into our water ways. Sarasota responsible irrigation is a must to keep our water ways clean and drinking water available to all of us in Sarasota.
Venice lawn care weed control has become very difficult now that Sarasota has passed stringent Sarasota fertilizer restrictions that compromise the health of the lawn, especially St. Augustine Grass. St. Augustine in my opinion is not worth the money nor the impact it has on our Sarasota environment especially our waterways, high nitrogen and pesticides, run into our water ways everytime we run our irrigation, or we have rain fall. Because of the polution of our water ways we can no longer put down fertilizer at will, reatrictions are no more than one pound of nitrogen per one thousand sq.ft. of turf. Florida legislation is coming up with even more restrictive application rates meaning St. Augustine is on its way out. I have replaced a lot of turf with Florida friendly landscape and lots of shade trees, shade trees along with good watering habits can reduce water consumption, along with reducing nitrogen run off and pesticides ruining our water ways. For more information call your local extension service, or contact www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com
Posted by admin | Posted in sarasota landscaping | Posted on 16-09-2009
Sarasota Landscape Design using a landscape designer with good references can save you alot of your hard earned money. Especially in Sarasota Residential landscape design there are many landscape designers that can design just as well as an architect usually getting your project designed alot faster than a architect. Before hiring a designer ask for addresses and testimonials, make sure to follow up on looking at his designs, make sure he, or she designs with water saving plants that once established will not need fertilizers or alot of water, which studies now say pollute our water ways more than any other factor. Sarasota environmental landscape design is not hard to achieve, there are many very good books available at your local library, what I suggest is look around your area and find the landscape with the least care that looks the best, usually it will have large shade trees and good ground cover. All plants should be suitable with our climate and use the same amount of water and fertilizer. Make sure that you choose a landscape that you can afford to care for, there will be care, and landscape companies of with any tallent will be a cost to consider. For more information on envirnmentally freindly landscapes contact www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com
Sarasota landscape lighting is a very good investment. Not only bringing to life your landscape for night time enjoyment, but that added security we all need in these times in which we live. Landscape lighting in Sarasota adds value to any home by giving curb appeal for night time strollers, easy to navigate pathways, numerical address lit up at night for easy identification. Here are a few tips about proper lighting installation. First of all install all wire and connections to ensure lasting equepment so many installs end in desaster because of wire connections not sealed in proper grease filled connectors, never overload a circuit by installing too many lights on andy one circuit, check wattage for each lights out output, remember more is bnot better, few lights in select areas will bring a more dramatic vision. For more information on proper landscape lighting visit our web site at www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com
Sarasota Irrigation water saving tips for September, irrigate only according to plant needs. Plan landscaping modifications for coming cooler dryer months. Check and clean irrigation filter, check all heads and valves for any small leaks. Use slow release fertilizers to reduce flushes of growth that stimulate plant water demands. We have had alot of rainfall here in Sarasota and Venice, however the next five months will be our driest time of year. I have installed many systems and as much as I hate to say it my clients use way too much water. I have found that irrigation sytems in Venice using the ten minutes per zone for three start times not only save water, but the plants and turf are much healthier, using multiple start times and running zones for ten minutes keeps the water on the property its intended for and not running down the street into our local water ways and ponds. running irrigation for too long leaches all nutrients out of the soil this makes fertilizer applications more frequent and cost you more money. There are so many ways to keep a nice landscape and lawn in Sarasota and using your irrigation system wisely is the most important part of all the components necessary to achieve a beautiful landscape while not harming our environment.
