Can anyone please suggest an on-line source for purchasing sprinkler donuts - cheap?
Chicken!!!!Ed G said:Oh, I have faith in pop-ups. I also have faith in my snapper to cut anything.
After all this manual labor, I do want to protect my new investment .
Any pictures yet? How's the overall coverage look so far?Had the zones operating with the controller for the first time yesterday.
What?... No dogs to pee in the back yard? :laugh:After four months of the sprinkler system being disconnected, the grass was wondering what all the wet stuff was.
Any controller with a zone test function is a joy. Any controller with a remote is ecstasy.That Rainbird ESP-4MI is a pretty cool controller. I love the zone test function. Lets me stay in the backyard and check head operation without a 1000 trips to the controller location.
Anything you find of interest.Ed G said:I meant to ask in another thread, but what pix would you like to see? Gimme a "shoping list".
Then it sounds like we have head-to-head coverage pretty much. THAT'S the name of the game. As more homes are built in the surrounding areas you'll need to keep an eye on things to see if the pressure goes down any more. If their radii are a little too much right now you can always knock them down a little to keep things in balance.Coverage is amazing. I can't walk anywhere in the yard without getting shot in the eye with a stream of water.
Now you'll be ready to tackle your neighbors' irrigation systems?I just finished the job at about 3:00 PM (est) yesterday.
Not as easy as some think, eh? :laugh:Ed G said:no way.
I have been asked by a neighbor to help with the design and install of his system.
I'll do my own work, but in order to keep harmony in the neighborhood, I'm going to recommend the guy hire an irrigation pro.
while I was browsing there I noticed they are selling Hunter adjustment keys for $10 + $5 shipping - I need to get in on that action!Williams LC said:www.www.costlessirrigation.com try this. 15 surrounds for 50 bucks
Imagine bentgrass on steroids Jon. Bermuda and St. Augustine grow on runners like bentgrass, but those runners are more dense than the stems of any goose grass or crabgrass you have ever seen. Warm season grasses like this can be installed in plugs or strips. Imagine six inch strips on 12 inch centers and having perfect turf in less than 4 months! Bed edging has the same challenges. Where in a climate like yours or even mine, a cultivated edge is cut once a year. Down south, they edge monthly or even more often.Dirty Water said:I've never installed donuts, I think it depends on the type of turf and soil you have.
I guess with a fast growing grass and sandy soil, they could be usefull.
Thats what I thought, I find grass that spreads by runners and rhizomes much more unattractive grass, but thats just because I'm used to looking at rye grass up here.bicmudpuppy said:Imagine bentgrass on steroids Jon. Bermuda and St. Augustine grow on runners like bentgrass, but those runners are more dense than the stems of any goose grass or crabgrass you have ever seen. Warm season grasses like this can be installed in plugs or strips. Imagine six inch strips on 12 inch centers and having perfect turf in less than 4 months! Bed edging has the same challenges. Where in a climate like yours or even mine, a cultivated edge is cut once a year. Down south, they edge monthly or even more often.
Ouch,, not a problem with our rye. BTW, your sig cracks me up every time I see a post from you. Friggin' hilarious. :laugh:MarcSmith said:the problem with roundup and st agustine is that you will get translocation down the stolon very easily and very far and end with much larger bown patches than you initially wanted.
Dont ask me how I know....
not a problem with Fescue up here either.Hank Reardon said:Ouch,, not a problem with our rye. BTW, your sig cracks me up every time I see a post from you. Friggin' hilarious. :laugh:
Think of the time you's save with less mowing! Besides, the fence posts would last longer without being line-trimmed all the time. (I'm a, "...glass is half-full" kind of guy. Or is it half-baked...)MarcSmith said:not a problem with Fescue up here either.
but if you spray some roundup on a st augustine stolon that was in your flower bed, it would translocate the roundup a good 12 inches. so 2-3" runner that you wanted to kill is now 12 inches dead....one dead runner is not a problem, but if you spray a 6" fence line, you'll end up with a 12" fench line or more...
but St Agustien is a voraciious grower and like was posed above you could plug a yard on 18" centers and have lush green lawn in several months.
I have very little problem with that. just have to have a very close application and a tight spray going. I almost never edge around sprinkler heads except where people insist on keeping those Damn Donuts.MarcSmith said:the problem with roundup and st agustine is that you will get translocation down the stolon very easily and very far and end with much larger bown patches than you initially wanted.
Dont ask me how I know....