Looking forward to being able to release the entire thing coming up soon. I think this radio format could be a lot of fun going forward. Thanks for the opportunity!
During Xmas of 2021 our outside lights were connected to the same outlet as our sprinkler system…around 2 am when the sprinklers went on I guess combined with the lights it tripped the outlet and it wasn’t until that March when I realized the sprinklers had been off since early December…here we are in April 2023 and the yard is finally looking better…now that I found your channel I am excited for the Summer…greetings from Champions Gate, Florida
Perfect timing on this video. Seeing a lot of “What’s wrong with my lawn???? It’s getting brown in areas....” questions on forums and Facebook. 92.3% are simple lack of water. People (including me) often forget to grab the lowest hanging fruit first.
With me being a "Pacific Northwesterner" I would have been in the Pool! Many thanks on the "Lawn Jargon"! Take care Mr. Florida, 🤓 -Thomas Western Washington State
The drought in GA was rough these past couple weeks. We're finally getting a TON of rain. My backyard suffered because I didn't water it (I can't afford to and the front yard is the main stage). I did notice that the drought absolutely fried a bunch of weeds I still had in the back and the grass is coming back strong. Best form of weed control...drought stress.
Good stuff Allen! I need to do this for sure, I have irrigation I made for the front yard, Pete Denny kbg test plot style and I do not have a timer on it. I made my first video, just a walk around of the lawn for anyone who wants to check it out! Thank you
Great tips. But you can also change nozzles on your heads too as you fine tune each head. I use rainbird and Toro. Nozzle packs are cheap as well as tools to change from say.3.0 gpm to 5.0 gpm or vice versa ..
That April/May drought browned many yards here is central Florida including mine. Many of us were too slow to adjust our watering schedule from the dormant period once the temperatures rose in March.
I have been in the Tampa Bay area since I was 6 in '88...I have always pronounced it "ba-hay-ah." The 4-6 weeks was pretty rough on my lawn. I am in no rush to see my water bill. I had to do a lot of "testing" and spot spraying to keep it green .
My lawn looks a lot like that first dry one as not only did I not get significant rain in May, but my irrigation well went dry. Need to replace my above-the-ground pump with a submersible for these times when the water table falls. Hydretain helped, but it can only do what it does when there's dew in the morning. Have listened to the Florida Gardening Show since Gill Whitten was the host. Have missed the last two weeks and @The Lawn Car Nut sneaks in. A podcasting I shall go.
Few things: 1: Don’t forget that zones overlap. You’ll need to run both zones to test the overlap area. 2: Amazon sells rain gauges specifically for this. Think I got a 10 pack for $15. 3: It would be fun to see you adjust the sprinklers, change out nozzles, etc to really dial it in.
It just depends on what you’re flow is. I have two zones that are about 1500 sq ft each. They take about 75 minutes for a half inch with 6-8 gallons per minute. Just measure it out and start using that to water and the grass will come back once it warms up. It can take 1.5” plus to keep your grass green when temps are in the 90’s plus everyday.
Assuming you’ve got the flow, you can always switch out the nozzles to up the gallons per minute. Either way, it’s not a race. Just get a half inch down each time. Doesn’t matter if it takes 20 minutes or 2 hours. Just make sure it’s not so fast that it’s running off.
Thanks for the great video, Allyn! I was sitting here trying to make sense of the fact that the diameter of the catchment vessel would cause quite a variation in your results... for example, if you used a 5gal bucket instead of a tuna can it would take far longer to fill it up to 1/2". I fired up ye ole' Google machine and found that according to NOAA, the most accurate rain gauge opening is 8", but 4" is still 'quite accurate'. (I'm still left wondering how they arrived at 8" being the standard, but I digress...) I don't have any tuna cans at my house, but I googled that as well and it seems that a 4oz tuna can is about 3 1/16" in diameter, and a 6oz 'salmon' can is 3 7/16" in diameter. I suppose 3-ish inches in diameter is close enough for this type of work. 😊This was just the result of me being curious and satisfying my need to 'figure it out'. That said, if you're using those 10-packs of yellow plastic rain gauges from Jeff Bezos, you may want to do some math to figure out how much 'indicated' rain you need to get an 'actual' half inch in there, if 12.56 square inches of area is 'quite accurate' (pi* r squared-- 3.14*4) and 50.24 square inches is the 'most accurate' (3.14*16).
I'm in a similar situation. Some of my sprinkler heads are broken so I have certain areas that don't get enough water. I barely know a thing or 2 about lawn care 😂 let alone messing around with my sprinkler system. So I bought a rotating sprinkler that attaches to my hose. Problem solved. Now if I could only figure out how to get someone to install a 2nd water faucet in my backyard so I don't have to haul around my 100 ft hose constantly back and forth that'd be great 😂
Al I finally got an irrigation system installed this past week and I knew my lawn would take a hit. So my question is what can I do to get it back to how it was before (without all the ruts and grooves) it was fairly level before and I want that back ASAP . I have (had lol) the best looking in my neighborhood and I gotta get that look again. Love all your content love the channel 👍🏾
Great Video.....Squeeze in some information sometime on Keeping around your heads clean with that pesky Floratam grass that tends to weave and matt down those heads so they won't pop. That's one of the biggest problems we have down here in Florida especially with the "Snow Birds" that are not familar with this type of grass and how thick it can get.
Very helpful as always. Can you please do a video on mulch? I am trying to see what kind of mulch you use in your yard in the beds. It looks beautiful. Is it Lava Rocks? The cypress mulch doesn't last too long and its a big job that I'd only like to do once and it's done! Thank you
After measuring your old lawn back in spring, I can conclude you were sitting on 5,000 sq. ft. and you only irrigated the front which was 2,000 sq. ft.
I’m up Chicago (yes AL do the accent) and having an inground system is a full time job for me with mechanical issues, especially with half of them being impacts my biggest problems are winter heaving of the heads and just lately with the soil bio program it makes the roots and rhizomes go nuts and hangs the impacts what a nightmare
I have soakers underground in my parkways and I know that these have to run longer but I don't trust them. What is a better way to use the tuna cans with hand watering or with a cheap above ground rotating sprinkler? Any help would be great!!! Thanks and great video
Wouldn't mind a sprinkler system where you put in info such as Zone, Zone Layout, how many sprinklers in the zone, Sprinkler head, which Nozzle type is in the sprinkler head, how much water do you want to put down, then based on that sort of information the sprinkler system will make water timing recommendations to put down the amount of water you want per day, or per your schedule. Then, if it were to rain, it would take that rainfall amount and adjust your next timing for the next scheduled day/week.
Great info! I'm curious why you put the tuna cans in the middle of the yard? I have issues with the edges of my lawn. The middle is fine. Should I put the cans on the edges of the lawn to measure?
In St. Petersburg where I was born and raised and out in the lawn is where I spend most of my days, mowing and watering and hanging out by the pool catching some rays whilst waiting for the beers to cool. I applied some fert and the wife got scared , and she Allyn you haven’t yet applied the Air8. I pull up a weed and drank another beer and I waved to the neighbor and said hey come over her , we talked about phos and roots and my point was clear that this neighbourhood has no friken idea !!!
Allyn, do you have any experience with Hunter's Hydrawise Smart System? Maybe you could shoot a video on how to program a smart system with weather triggers, etc to maximize water savings while still delivering 1/2 inch every three days.
Question regarding shading: If a tree blocks out the sun on half of a zone and the other half is full sun then the full sun area should get more water to deal with evaporation, correct? Would the best practice be to water the full sun area more by changing the head so that the shaded area gets 1 inch per week and the full sun gets say 1.25 inches per week?
can we do this on a really sunny hot day? or will the water evaporate from the can too much in the heat/sun? trying to wait for overcast but want to get my sprinklers fixed
Question about creeping red fescue. I just over seeded my lawn after aeration a week ago, and I am seeing these little leaf blooms all over along the path of the spreader. I am stumped as to what these are and all my net research is yielding nothing. Thoughts?
Allyn - I searched and can't locate a video I think I'm remembering - Did you install a soil sensor (hunter or other brand) with your system? If so, do you like it? I have a good system, but I'm always looking for other ways to make it better for the environment, and to save on the water bill. It already adjusts for weather, heat, wind, rain, freezing etc... but no soil sensor. Thoughts?
What do you think of the water calculation that rachio does? Supposedly factors in slope, soil type .. etc... Could you do an advanced setup/settings video on the rachio?
I have a gen2 rachio, not much different then gen 1 other then looks. I like mine a lot. My lawn looks dead and alive at the same time. Not sure if I'm under watering or not
Another way i've read about is putting 1 can near the sprinkler head and another far away from that same sprinkler head , then taking the average of the 2 cans, and i guess that would be the actual number. Haven't tried this yet though.
How would you recommend accounting for overlap of zones? If the same area is hit by 2 zones, should I aim to have each zone put down 1/2" or the sum of both zones equal 1/2"?
Have you done a video about weeds spreading to your yard because of your neighbor? Been pulling weeds about a foot pass my property line so that it won’t spill on my side. I even put fertilizer and I wonder if he notices that it’s green.
Good times on the radio this morning
Looking forward to being able to release the entire thing coming up soon. I think this radio format could be a lot of fun going forward. Thanks for the opportunity!
I got 11 zones.. fml 😑I’m drunk
During Xmas of 2021 our outside lights were connected to the same outlet as our sprinkler system…around 2 am when the sprinklers went on I guess combined with the lights it tripped the outlet and it wasn’t until that March when I realized the sprinklers had been off since early December…here we are in April 2023 and the yard is finally looking better…now that I found your channel I am excited for the Summer…greetings from Champions Gate, Florida
Perfect timing on this video. Seeing a lot of “What’s wrong with my lawn???? It’s getting brown in areas....” questions on forums and Facebook. 92.3% are simple lack of water. People (including me) often forget to grab the lowest hanging fruit first.
Very cool Alan! Great station, I listen everyday through the week 12-3.
Very good info!! I Just got my sprinkler system back up and running and my St Augustine Grass is looking good!
I swear that beer brought some of the old Chicago out. Cheers. And thanks for the watering vid.
solid top 14 and watching while on vacation in greece
With me being a "Pacific Northwesterner" I would have been in the Pool!
Many thanks on the "Lawn Jargon"!
Take care Mr. Florida,
🤓 -Thomas
Western Washington State
Love the treehouse beers Al. I’m fortunate enough to live about 20min from the brewery. 🍻cheers!!!
Excellent video , very helpful with great tips 👍🏻
I LOVE my Rachio controller! VERY happy with it!
The lawn is looking really nice .
Was about to type up a request for irrigation video when I pulled this up!
The drought in GA was rough these past couple weeks. We're finally getting a TON of rain. My backyard suffered because I didn't water it (I can't afford to and the front yard is the main stage). I did notice that the drought absolutely fried a bunch of weeds I still had in the back and the grass is coming back strong. Best form of weed control...drought stress.
LCN the Green will get you every time buddy!
Great taste in beer dude. Just had a can of Haze after my mow 👍🍻
That's what I call dedication to your viewers! I like tuna, but not enough to eat that many cans 😁🤣 informative video good sir.
Good stuff Allen! I need to do this for sure, I have irrigation I made for the front yard, Pete Denny kbg test plot style and I do not have a timer on it.
I made my first video, just a walk around of the lawn for anyone who wants to check it out! Thank you
Great tips.
But you can also change nozzles on your heads too as you fine tune each head. I use rainbird and Toro. Nozzle packs are cheap as well as tools to change from say.3.0 gpm to 5.0 gpm or vice versa
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That April/May drought browned many yards here is central Florida including mine. Many of us were too slow to adjust our watering schedule from the dormant period once the temperatures rose in March.
Tuna and Treehouse, quite the combo! I am local to Treehouse too, best reward after some yardwork!!
I have been in the Tampa Bay area since I was 6 in '88...I have always pronounced it "ba-hay-ah." The 4-6 weeks was pretty rough on my lawn. I am in no rush to see my water bill. I had to do a lot of "testing" and spot spraying to keep it green .
I didn't know eating tuna required PPE. I learn something from every video. Thanks Allyn.
the way I eat it you have to be concerned about safety - also, it does make a great base for strong beers
My lawn looks a lot like that first dry one as not only did I not get significant rain in May, but my irrigation well went dry. Need to replace my above-the-ground pump with a submersible for these times when the water table falls. Hydretain helped, but it can only do what it does when there's dew in the morning. Have listened to the Florida Gardening Show since Gill Whitten was the host. Have missed the last two weeks and @The Lawn Car Nut sneaks in. A podcasting I shall go.
Few things:
1: Don’t forget that zones overlap. You’ll need to run both zones to test the overlap area.
2: Amazon sells rain gauges specifically for this. Think I got a 10 pack for $15.
3: It would be fun to see you adjust the sprinklers, change out nozzles, etc to really dial it in.
A couple of my bigger zones run for about 75 minutes to throw out a half inch. It’s completely normal.
It just depends on what you’re flow is. I have two zones that are about 1500 sq ft each. They take about 75 minutes for a half inch with 6-8 gallons per minute.
Just measure it out and start using that to water and the grass will come back once it warms up. It can take 1.5” plus to keep your grass green when temps are in the 90’s plus everyday.
Assuming you’ve got the flow, you can always switch out the nozzles to up the gallons per minute. Either way, it’s not a race. Just get a half inch down each time. Doesn’t matter if it takes 20 minutes or 2 hours. Just make sure it’s not so fast that it’s running off.
Cats are gonna love your walkway!
The lesson is: ya' gotta' eat a lotta' tuna to have a great lawn over by dare 👍😎
I eat tuna the same way. Super fast and gagging 😂 hilarious brother.
12 zones = 12 beers. should be a fun Saturday
Thanks for the great video, Allyn!
I was sitting here trying to make sense of the fact that the diameter of the catchment vessel would cause quite a variation in your results... for example, if you used a 5gal bucket instead of a tuna can it would take far longer to fill it up to 1/2".
I fired up ye ole' Google machine and found that according to NOAA, the most accurate rain gauge opening is 8", but 4" is still 'quite accurate'. (I'm still left wondering how they arrived at 8" being the standard, but I digress...) I don't have any tuna cans at my house, but I googled that as well and it seems that a 4oz tuna can is about 3 1/16" in diameter, and a 6oz 'salmon' can is 3 7/16" in diameter.
I suppose 3-ish inches in diameter is close enough for this type of work. 😊This was just the result of me being curious and satisfying my need to 'figure it out'.
That said, if you're using those 10-packs of yellow plastic rain gauges from Jeff Bezos, you may want to do some math to figure out how much 'indicated' rain you need to get an 'actual' half inch in there, if 12.56 square inches of area is 'quite accurate' (pi* r squared-- 3.14*4) and 50.24 square inches is the 'most accurate' (3.14*16).
Good info on this one. I have a hybrid set up right now, front yard, the builder put in 3 zones, back yard I have to manually water.
I'm in a similar situation. Some of my sprinkler heads are broken so I have certain areas that don't get enough water. I barely know a thing or 2 about lawn care 😂 let alone messing around with my sprinkler system. So I bought a rotating sprinkler that attaches to my hose. Problem solved. Now if I could only figure out how to get someone to install a 2nd water faucet in my backyard so I don't have to haul around my 100 ft hose constantly back and forth that'd be great 😂
Treehouse, one of the best breweries in the country. Green is delish!
I link two impacts together and let them do full circles in my front. It’s about 6,000sqft. Gets 80% coverage and is simple.
Al I finally got an irrigation system installed this past week and I knew my lawn would take a hit. So my question is what can I do to get it back to how it was before (without all the ruts and grooves) it was fairly level before and I want that back ASAP . I have (had lol) the best looking in my neighborhood and I gotta get that look again.
Love all your content love the channel 👍🏾
Tuna burps made me gag! I hate tuna. Lol! Great video! Educational with a personal fun twist!
You are the Big Tuna!
Nice house and Land!
Didn't know you can get Tree House brewing beer in Florida! (it is brewed near my house). Learning on how to take care of my New England lawn!
Great Video.....Squeeze in some information sometime on Keeping around your heads clean with that pesky Floratam grass that tends to weave and matt down those heads so they won't pop. That's one of the biggest problems we have down here in Florida especially with the "Snow Birds" that are not familar with this type of grass and how thick it can get.
Awesome bro cheers
Have you choked on Bumble Bee Tuna lately? LMAO that's hilarious. On a serious note, great info here!
Treehouse Green, how fitting of a beer for the LCN!
Very helpful as always. Can you please do a video on mulch? I am trying to see what kind of mulch you use in your yard in the beds. It looks beautiful. Is it Lava Rocks? The cypress mulch doesn't last too long and its a big job that I'd only like to do once and it's done! Thank you
Treehouse beer in Florida!? Excellent stuff
Really enjoy your videos! Does changing the head (like from straight across to semi-circle) make a big difference?
After measuring your old lawn back in spring, I can conclude you were sitting on 5,000 sq. ft. and you only irrigated the front which was 2,000 sq. ft.
Jake The Lawn Kid guys remember things as larger than they were in real life. ....
Jake The Lawn Kid like a good neighbor JLTK is there!
This sounded like a lot of work until you reminded me it was 1 beer per zone. Feels a lot more achievable now.
I’m up Chicago (yes AL do the accent) and having an inground system is a full time job for me with mechanical issues, especially with half of them being impacts my biggest problems are winter heaving of the heads and just lately with the soil bio program it makes the roots and rhizomes go nuts and hangs the impacts what a nightmare
LOL ....Bro that tuna might have gotten the best of you 👍🤣💯
I have soakers underground in my parkways and I know that these have to run longer but I don't trust them. What is a better way to use the tuna cans with hand watering or with a cheap above ground rotating sprinkler? Any help would be great!!! Thanks and great video
Funny intro with the tuna
Nice video! I’m totally trying this! Time to eat tuna!
Wouldn't mind a sprinkler system where you put in info such as Zone, Zone Layout, how many sprinklers in the zone, Sprinkler head, which Nozzle type is in the sprinkler head, how much water do you want to put down, then based on that sort of information the sprinkler system will make water timing recommendations to put down the amount of water you want per day, or per your schedule. Then, if it were to rain, it would take that rainfall amount and adjust your next timing for the next scheduled day/week.
Nice😊
I Love the Shenanigans🤣🤣
Great info! I'm curious why you put the tuna cans in the middle of the yard? I have issues with the edges of my lawn. The middle is fine. Should I put the cans on the edges of the lawn to measure?
Hi, I love your videos. Very informative. I noticed the paint color of your house. Do you mind sharing the paint color?
Al, do you aerate your lawns? Will this reduce amount of water needed or stay the same?
In St. Petersburg where I was born and raised and out in the lawn is where I spend most of my days, mowing and watering and hanging out by the pool catching some rays whilst waiting for the beers to cool.
I applied some fert and the wife got scared , and she Allyn you haven’t yet applied the Air8.
I pull up a weed and drank another beer and I waved to the neighbor and said hey come over her , we talked about phos and roots and my point was clear that this neighbourhood has no friken idea !!!
Allyn, do you have any experience with Hunter's Hydrawise Smart System? Maybe you could shoot a video on how to program a smart system with weather triggers, etc to maximize water savings while still delivering 1/2 inch every three days.
I knew it was a Tree House Green!!! They are 30min away from me, were you in the area?!?
Question regarding shading: If a tree blocks out the sun on half of a zone and the other half is full sun then the full sun area should get more water to deal with evaporation, correct? Would the best practice be to water the full sun area more by changing the head so that the shaded area gets 1 inch per week and the full sun gets say 1.25 inches per week?
I'm so full of tuna and salmon! Time to get out there! BTW he should have said crab and salmon also come in the same size containers.
can we do this on a really sunny hot day? or will the water evaporate from the can too much in the heat/sun? trying to wait for overcast but want to get my sprinklers fixed
Question about creeping red fescue. I just over seeded my lawn after aeration a week ago, and I am seeing these little leaf blooms all over along the path of the spreader. I am stumped as to what these are and all my net research is yielding nothing. Thoughts?
My lawn did not get good water during the hot, dry spell in north FL. It's bad. It's recovering a bit but damage was done...
Great videos. What time in the morning do you recommend? 3am or 7am?
What’s your opinion on Hydretain and How does work into watering programs?
Lol treehouse underground. I'm just an hour drive from there, it's my favorite beer, and I have a hard time getting it.
Allyn - I searched and can't locate a video I think I'm remembering - Did you install a soil sensor (hunter or other brand) with your system? If so, do you like it? I have a good system, but I'm always looking for other ways to make it better for the environment, and to save on the water bill. It already adjusts for weather, heat, wind, rain, freezing etc... but no soil sensor. Thoughts?
Alan what if I have two different types of grasses Bermuda and fescue in my lawn what height should I mow at
What do you think of the water calculation that rachio does? Supposedly factors in slope, soil type .. etc...
Could you do an advanced setup/settings video on the rachio?
I don't use all the functions of it - just the rain skips and it does well with that
Do you recommend this watering for Phoenix AZ? BTW I love the beer added in between, not sure if my husband would agree lol
So you measure each zone independently? Not all the zones together to get an average to account for overlap?
is 0.3" okay if i am watering every other day. My municipality enforces even days for even house numbers and odd days for odd house numbers.
I have a gen2 rachio, not much different then gen 1 other then looks. I like mine a lot. My lawn looks dead and alive at the same time. Not sure if I'm under watering or not
ALso Citrus County has limited watering to 1 day per week for those of us pumping from the aquifer . SO DO I run 1.5inch at one time
Was that a “Green” from treehouse that you were crushing ?! Delicious !
Yes and yes !
7:03
"Have a good day!"
What is the best thing to do if I have spots in the lawn that doesn’t drain and the water pools?
Been trying to get my hands on some Treehouse for 5 years now!
that's what she said
Star Mazda! We fuel them! That must be Sebring 👍🏼
I chuckled because I don't care for tuna, but have a cat, and envisioned you chowing down on a can of cat food :D
Another way i've read about is putting 1 can near the sprinkler head and another far away from that same sprinkler head , then taking the average of the 2 cans, and i guess that would be the actual number. Haven't tried this yet though.
Hey Big AL..........if i ate tuna that fast i think id throw up! Great Vid as always
Ahh, I can just imagine the smell of tuna with an underlying hint of success. Yet another good reason to move the podcast out of the garage.
- Jeff
Only LCN would use gloves to open a tuna can. Well done sir!
he doesn't want his hands to stink like fish and iron lol
Lol “you’re allowed one beer per zone”
Hello I’m new to this and I kind of confused you said we need to have our lawns watered 1 inch a week ?
Life is good.
“Blast of cold air”
LMAO!!!
How would you recommend accounting for overlap of zones? If the same area is hit by 2 zones, should I aim to have each zone put down 1/2" or the sum of both zones equal 1/2"?
use your best judgement
Startin to slurrrrr a little at the end!!!
Honey... I gotta do the tuna can challenge!
Wife... again???? Didnt you do the tuna can thing last night??
I think it’s mercury poisoning
Allyn what are your thoughts on drip irrigation systems?
Great video!
P.s. please review the new 60 volt Toro Recycler.
I need to save up for it
Just watched the podcast where you already mentioned this. Sorry for being the guy that brings up an already addressed subject
Haha, nice LA Beast reference that guy is insane!
👊
Great video, does the size of the tuna cans matter?
7:05 lawncare with a side of mukbang lol
Tree House in Florida??!!? Nice find!
Have you done a video about weeds spreading to your yard because of your neighbor? Been pulling weeds about a foot pass my property line so that it won’t spill on my side. I even put fertilizer and I wonder if he notices that it’s green.