Setting up for general watering
Hi - I am setting up a watering schedule for my lawn...my question - what frequency works best? Should I set up for daily, or every other day? Does the rainmachine work "better" with every day usage? Meaning, using weather patterns, it is better able to control exactly what the lawn needs?
It strikes me that if this was a truly intelligent device, it would know exactly when to water, and how much, and in that situation, it should be doing this daily. The only reason you'd need the other frequencies is if your municipality required it.
Am I thinking about this correctly? I don't want to overwater my lawn...
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Hi Greg,
Yes, you are correct, daily is the preferred method other frequencies are for user preferences (every 2, 3 days) and "Certain days" usually to conform with municipality rules.
This is mostly true for "lawn" but depends on vegetation, for example established trees could be watered every 7 days or more. It depends on your plant root depth, small daily watering
is ok for short root depths for deeper ones it's better to put more water in one watering session than "tease" it with short daily watering as it will promote deeper root grow vs shallow roots.
There are multiple configuring choices depending on vegetation/soil you can setup for example a daily baseline program with an extra program just for 2 days for mixed vegetation zones, or 2 programs for same zones each with half required duration one in the morning and one during night etc.
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