Save water in your garden

Interested in saving water in your garden? Think maybe you are over-watering your plants and trees? Want to be able to choose new plants for your garden that are drought tolerant? Well perhaps you should check out http://www.savewater.com.au, it is filled with tips and information to help save water in your garden.

And if you are in Victoria or Geelong you should also check out another website which was developed by the University of Melbourne, http://www2.smartgardenwatering.org.au/. As well as having general tips and techniques for water saving it also has a very useful tool which you can use to optimise water usage in your garden. Basically it takes your postcode, your garden area size, what is planted, how the area is watered and a few other bits and pieces. This information is run through the fancy modelling tool and you get a report of how often and for how many minutes you should be watering for at different times of the year.

Once you have set up your garden you can save it for future use or share it so that other people can benefit from the information you have provided. Water usage is a sometimes difficult concept but SmartWatering has made an easy to use tool that will have you saving water and money and will help keep your garden looking great.

So the next time you see a neighbour who loves wasting water in their garden point them towards SmartWatering, of course if it's that elderly lady who likes to wash her concrete path well that's another problem....