- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Front sprinkler zone complete. Holy crap there’s a LOT of smaller rocks in that dirt....
Help with my yardscaping plans?
- Thread starter mbryson
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Front sprinkler zone complete. Holy crap there’s a LOT of smaller rocks in that dirt....
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I could have went for $1600 for the insta-lawn. Our quotes were all well over $2500 for the 8000 sq feet.
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
I think you'll be fine, grass swallows rocks pretty fast, they will help with drainage or something 
The house next door to me put down sod about 3 owners ago, currently it looks like a neglected house with more weeds than grass. At this point I think the owner doesn't care any more until the city shows up and tells him the weeds are too long. It's really too bad, there was some serious $ put down 3 owners ago.
The house next door to me put down sod about 3 owners ago, currently it looks like a neglected house with more weeds than grass. At this point I think the owner doesn't care any more until the city shows up and tells him the weeds are too long. It's really too bad, there was some serious $ put down 3 owners ago.
kmboren
Recovering XJ owner anonymous
- Location
- Southern Utah
We buried the rain gutter run offs and did a pop up valve thing into the grass. Not sure if that was in your plans but I love how it turned out on ours. Yea that's a lot of money for a lot of sod. Didn't realize you had that much to put down. Our front yard was already done we just needed to do the back.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I need to do something with those stupid tubes. Not sure I could hate something in a yard more than those
kmboren
Recovering XJ owner anonymous
- Location
- Southern Utah
This is how it looks in the grass. Dig a trench and then this pop up thing attachs to the end then when it rains it just waters the grass. This one is ran like 60 feet from the side of our house down
and I have another shorter one on the other corner of our grass.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
I have a similar one in the front yard. I can't even find where it is now, but it's still working. I should have done that with all of my gutter drains.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Just set up my Orbit B-hyve water manager for my one zone. 
Way easy setup and it’s managed through an app rather than through various key sequences on the controller. Kind of to simple but we’ll see how it goes
Way easy setup and it’s managed through an app rather than through various key sequences on the controller. Kind of to simple but we’ll see how it goes
Unimog
Eric
- Location
- Stansbury Park, UT
I like the b-hyve unit. Been using it for a few years now. It is dead simple. Once programmed for my network, I just plug it in every spring and I can find it using the app!
Tonkaman
Well-Known Member
- Location
- West Jordan
I’ve been using the Rachio controller for a couple years now. My favorite thing is being able to turn on and off the sprinklers with my phone. Adjusting and fixing sprinklers has never been easier! Letting the kids play in the sprinklers is pretty easy too
How do those work in the winter, with snow on the ground? I've got a couple I would like to run from the gutter down spouts.
- Location
- West Haven, UT
I went a step further when I put my yard in back in 2017 at our new home and went with dry wells rather than just doing pop-ups. Probably overkill in our sandy soil in West Haven but I did not want drainage issues like I had at my last home in West Point with more of a clay soil. My entire roof run off goes into dry wells on my property. I have four total for the house (2 downspouts drain into each dry well) and for the shop I have two double deep drywells for each half of the roof for a total of 6 dry wells on my property.
My dry wells consist of holes about 6' in diameter by 6' deep and lined the bottom 1' with 3/4" aggregate. I then placed the 35-gallon NDS dry wells into the hole with holes cut out all around the perimeter and some on the bottom. The dry wells were about 40" tall by 32" in diameter. After the dry wells were in place and the down spouts were cut into the side I poured 3/4" aggregate all around the outside of the dry wells which ended up being about 1' of rock around the outside edge. I then put an overflow or stub coming directly up out of the top of the dry well with the pop-up at ground level. I added aggregate until there was about a foot remaining below grade. I put heavy plastic sheeting down over the dry well and aggregate to keep the ground water from entering the actual dry well and immediate area. I added about 10" of top soil above that and then the sod. The shop roof feeds into two deep dry wells.
So far with 3 winters under my belt they have worked perfectly but I do keep the pop-ups cleared of snow when clearing my driveway to allow any/all roof water to properly drain into the dry wells.
I can't answer as to how well just a drain pipe with pop-ups would work.
Mike
kmboren
Recovering XJ owner anonymous
- Location
- Southern Utah
Not sure Bart as I just installed them but I think in my winter they will be just fine as I live in Southern Utah. 👍I imagine if they were buried deep enough you wouldn't have a problem until the actual pop up water came out. How much rain so we really get anyways here in Utah? I did them into my grass to spread the water out. During thunder storm with heavy rain in short periods it would erode my ground and the back yard would turn into a pond against the brick wall. I am hoping the grass can help with this problem.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Ok. Been busting ass a bit the past few days. 
I really liked operating this dawg on Friday. Took a minute to get the machine figured out but it was easy enough to run. Should have done that three weeks ago.
Ran the rain gutter drainage all the way down the side of the house, connected it to its friend at the back of the house and now it will drain on the lawn in the back through some collected rocks.
if you look closely you can see the peat moss for sprinkler zone two above. Planted on 5/26/2020. I may have green stuff poking through in 7-10 days? (It’s supposed to be pretty warm this week so we’ll see how that goes.)
Front yard update, has green peach fuzz now. That’s after 9 days of being on the surface. I’ve had two deer go through there and a golden retriever. The deer prints are deep but it is what it is.
We also had a little Lincoln mishap today. That was fixed before I got home
I really liked operating this dawg on Friday. Took a minute to get the machine figured out but it was easy enough to run. Should have done that three weeks ago.
Ran the rain gutter drainage all the way down the side of the house, connected it to its friend at the back of the house and now it will drain on the lawn in the back through some collected rocks.
if you look closely you can see the peat moss for sprinkler zone two above. Planted on 5/26/2020. I may have green stuff poking through in 7-10 days? (It’s supposed to be pretty warm this week so we’ll see how that goes.)
Front yard update, has green peach fuzz now. That’s after 9 days of being on the surface. I’ve had two deer go through there and a golden retriever. The deer prints are deep but it is what it is.
We also had a little Lincoln mishap today. That was fixed before I got home
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Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
looks like it's coming in, you'll be mowing in a couple weeks.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Thoughts on a Kentucky coffee tree to be a friend with my London Plantree?
johngottfredson
Threat Level Midnight
- Location
- Alpine
Not a huge fan. Have you considered a Northern Catalpa? I’m planting one this year. One of my personal favorites, if you can make peace with the pods that drop and become ammo for kid fights
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I’ll check into that. Does the Kentucky Coffee Tree have junk dropping from it?
johngottfredson
Threat Level Midnight
- Location
- Alpine
Yes, it gets large seed pods (that were historically boiled for a frontier coffee substitute) plus giant compound leaves that when they drop in the fall get pretty gnarly 
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
Eh, I’ll pass on the big old pods. Might as well get a coconut tree instead of that? The tree looked cool though. Glad I asked. Thanks for the heads up