Every spring, gardeners plant tomatoes with high hopes. Every summer, those same gardeners wonder why they’re getting more leaves than fruit, why the tomatoes are splitting, or why the plants just look stressed despite all the attention. The problem usually isn’t the variety. It’s not the soil. It’s not even the fertilizer. It’s the water. […]
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If it feels like your water bill is creeping up month after month, you’re not imagining things. Homeowners across the country are opening their statements, doing a double take, and asking the same question: “How am I using this much water?” The truth is you might not be. In many cases, rising bills have less […]
There’s a quiet line item eating into NOI, and contractor margins every single day: inaction. In water management, “doing nothing” may seem harmless, keeping last year’s schedule, skipping the audit, ignoring the small leak, or postponing the retrofit. But the costs compound in ways that budgets rarely capture: water you didn’t need to buy, plants […]
Join us for a powerful conversation with Stuart Eyring, CEO of Orbit Irrigation, as we dig into one of the most important — and often misunderstood — concepts in irrigation: Evapotranspiration (ET). ET is the combination of water lost through soil evaporation and plant transpiration. It is the scientific foundation of modern irrigation scheduling, helping […]




