How Do You Buy An Automatic Sprinkler System?
Depending on your climate, an automatic sprinkler system for some or all of your garden is either a nice luxury or a near necessity. While a well-designed system can save you time, energy and water, it can also be expensive, often up to $5,500 for an average-size yard. Planning and installing it is complex and best left to the experts. Decide how much of your yard needs irrigation beyond normal rainfall. Lawns are probably the biggest water hogs. Vegetables and flowers need constant moisture during the growing season. Shrubs and trees with deeper roots can get by with less frequent watering. You can irrigate all of these plants with the same system, set at different intervals and employing various types of sprinkler heads. Consider an underground system for the parts of your yard whose basic layout won’t change every year–lawns and large planted areas of trees, shrubs and flowers. These systems are constructed of pipes installed several inches underground, with sprinkler heads placed
