Waterwise gardening

Description

The EPA estimates that over 50% of the water homeowners use on lawns and gardens goes to waste. In short, home gardeners do not have a good understanding of how much water their plants need. The issue is not what you water¾it is how long and how often you water and what watering devices are used to apply water. The majority of US homeowners overwater everything and most of it evaporates or can’t be absorbed by the plants¾and Richard Restuccia will fix that, showing readers how to achieve truly lush, beautiful and bountiful gardens using less water than they would have ever imagined and saving 30-50% off their annual water bill. By knowing your land, using simple technology like smart controllers that automatically adjust irrigation daily based on current weather and soil moisture (meaning the water savings pays for the controller within just a few months), and being able to look up actual scientific water requirements for the species in your yard based on season and maturity, as well as providing a guide of how to determine if your plant is suffering from overwatering , (or worse, overwatering and overfertilizing and still not thriving), Restuccia brings together in one place for the first time all the information homeowners usually have to go hunting for across various sources and websites. Planned as a two-volume set, one for ‘temperate’ regions of the US and one for ‘drier’ regions including the Southwest and So. California, (some info will overlap from one to the other, with regionally specific content swapped in as appropriate) this hardworking manual will backlist for many years and become a valuable reference for homeowners, saving them time performing menial tasks in the yard, money on replacing plants, and of course, money on water bills.