Creating a beautiful landscape is a significant investment, and requires proper care and maintenance.  Proper drainage and irrigation also lays the groundwork for creating a healthy foundation for your lawn.  Water management and irrigation is essential.  YardBlooms can design, install, and maintain a custom irrigation system to help you protect that investment.  

  • Water system management & conservation
  • New system installation including remote monitoring
  • Repairs and adjustments to existing systems
  • Drainage system repairs and installation
  • Irrigation Repair
    • Quickly able to identify and fix any issues before plants and lawn worsen 
    • Fixing anything from small leaking heads to large main breaks in line 
  • Irrigation Upgrades
    • Specialize in creating irrigation plans specific to your yard and its needs
    • Add zones for beds, move from spray to drip irrigation, and all other irrigation improvements 

FAQ

Why should residential homeowners care about irrigation management?

Water costs money. Someone who does a good job of irrigation management will have a greener lawn, better landscaping, and a lower water bill than someone who doesn’t. Poor irrigation management also has an environmental impact because water is a limited resource. The more we use, the less water is available for alternate uses. Water is also the primary vehicle that moves fertilizers and pesticides off of landscapes and carries them into our streams and water bodies where they can cause environmental damage.

When do I turn my water on in the spring?

It depends on your location, the weather, and how much precipitation (water) was stored in the soil over the winter as snow melt and rain.

What are the environmental and health consequences of poor irrigation management?

Water is the primary vehicle for moving fertilizers and pesticides out of the soil where they are needed and useful into groundwater, streams, and water bodies. Drinking fertilizers and pesticides that are pumped out of wells from the groundwater can have negative health effects.

Fertilizers help plants grow. In streams and water bodies, excessive fertilizers and nutrients will promote aquatic vegetation and algae to the point that they choke out other native plant species and consume so much of the water’s oxygen that fish and other aquatic animals are negatively impacted. When too much irrigation water is applied, water will either run off or move down through the soil past the bottom of the root zone where the plants can no longer reach it. When this happens, it can cause erosion and/or move nitrogen and soluble phosphorous with it.