Landscaping··3 min read
Fall and Winter Prep, Trade by Trade
Irrigation, spray, lawn, and trees each shut down for the cold in their own way. A short checklist for the crews that do all four.
Field Notes
Notes from the field.
Tutorials, irrigation history, drought updates, and landscaping insight. Written for the people who do the work.
Tutorials··4 min read
Reading an Irrigation Controller for the First Time
Stations, programs, run times, and the difference between a conventional and a two-wire controller. If you can read one panel, you can read most of them.
Tutorials··3 min read
The Same-Controller Overlap Trap
Two zones on the same controller cannot run at the same time, so they cannot conflict. Most scheduling software does not know this, and it cries wolf all day.
News & Drought··3 min read
Why 'Watering Days' Rules Exist, and Why They Are So Confusing
Odd and even addresses, two days a week, no watering between 10 and 4. The rules feel arbitrary. They are not, and knowing the why makes them easier to work with.
History··5 min read
Before PVC: What Irrigation Pipe Actually Was
PVC pipe has only been standard in residential irrigation for about 60 years. Before that, we used galvanized steel, copper, clay, and some stuff that will surprise you.
History··5 min read
The 1976-77 California Drought and the Irrigation Tech It Created
Two dry winters in a row changed American irrigation forever. Almost every water-saving technology you use today traces back to it.
History··4 min read
A Brief History of the Pop-Up Sprinkler
From a patent in 1933 to the MP Rotator, the story of how the pop-up sprinkler evolved — and why every step forward was slower than you'd think.
History··4 min read
The Roman Aqueducts That Still Work Today
Some Roman water systems are still running, two thousand years later. They got a few things right that modern irrigation still gets wrong.
News & Drought··2 min read
Welcome to Field Notes
A new place on flowsync.pro for tutorials, irrigation history, drought updates, and landscaping insight from the field.