Watering through the year and auditing your reticulation
Seasonal adjustment rather than set-and-forget, the annual pre-summer retic check every Perth garden needs, and the audit method that finds the blocked nozzle quietly killing a corner of the garden.
Not planted yet — but the plan for it is final
The practical task and the checklist below are exactly what this lesson will teach. What is missing is the written explanation and the curated links, each one fetched and verified before it ships.
In the meantime the checklist is genuinely usable on its own. Take it outside.
Do this on your own block
Field journal entry
Retic audit record
Run a full station-by-station audit: every head checked for arc, radius, blockage and damage; pressure checked; catch-cup uniformity re-tested on the important stations; run times adjusted for the season. Record what you found and fixed.
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Checklist
- Every station run and watched, head by head
- Blocked, broken, sunken and misaimed heads fixed
- Run times adjusted for the season, not left at last summer's setting
- Controller backup battery and programme checked
- Audit repeated before summer every year