Irrigation

If you manage a commercial property in Flower Mound and your landscape contract runs on the calendar year, September is when you should start thinking about it. Not December. Not January, after the current agreement has already rolled over for another twelve months. I get calls every spring from property managers who are frustrated with how their grounds look and want to make a change. By then the window has mostly closed. They are stuck for another season, or they switch

Every year around the end of August the phone starts doing the same thing. Somebody notices one section of the yard going off color while the rest of it looks fine. They go out and watch the controller cycle through, and sure enough, zone four runs for its twelve minutes and nothing comes out of the ground. The first thing most people assume is a leak. Something broke underground, water is going somewhere it shouldn't, and this is going to mean tearing up the lawn.

Our team at RD Services has dug a lot of holes in Flower Mound over the years, and I can tell you exactly what you will hit about eight inches down. Clay. Dense, sticky, gray to black clay that turns into concrete in August and soup after a good rain. If you have ever tried to push a shovel into your yard in July and felt it bounce back at you, you already know what I am talking about.

If your yard is looking rough right now, you're not alone. We tend to get more calls around this time of year about brown patches and dying grass than any other time of year, and honestly, most of it isn't your fault.