The rainy season is here, sometimes it rains and sometimes it doesn't. Though the average annual rainfall in this part of Florida is about 56 inches a year, nature just won't cooperate and give us that water at an inch a week which would be just about perfect. This means that even in the rainy season, most of us have irrigation systems to supplement what water Mother Nature sends our way.

Unfortunately, these irrigation systems are the subject of much misuse. For whatever reason, it seems a lot of folks like to see their systems run everyday, so they run them for a short period of time, often. This schedule is a disaster for many reasons.

Plants need regular water just like you and me. But they have the ability to take that water from the soil through out the area of their root zone.