In today’s technology-based world most people own a smart phone, a tablet, or a computer. Technology is inevitable, and the landscaping industry is not exempt from this. We have assembled a list of some high-tech landscaping and gardening tools that you can use in your own backyard!
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Smart Irrigation Systems
Smart irrigation systems enable people to manage their sprinkler systems right from their smart phones. These Wi-Fi-enabled irrigation controllers utilize local weather forecasts to ensure your lawn gets the necessary watering.
They adjust watering schedules based on hot and dry conditions versus rainy or cool climates. This stops you from unnecessarily watering your lawn during rainfall, thereby conserving water. For additional details on Smart Irrigation and Wi-Fi controllers, refer to our blog.
High-Tech Robot Mowers
A variety of robotic lawn mowers are now on the market. Essentially, they’re like Roombas for your yard. You can set them up from your mobile device to trim your grass at any hour, day, or night.
Residential Robot Mowers
The Husqvarna Automower is a prime selection for property owners. It operates extremely silently, allowing it to function throughout the night without causing any disturbance to your neighbors.
The Automower remains within the confines of your garden, which the location of the boundary wire defines. You can arrange this wire around flower beds, trees, garden furniture, and water elements. If the mower collides with any object or person, the blades retract, and the device immediately halts.
It comes with a charging station that you install in your yard. The mower can be scheduled to go back to the station when it needs to be charged or whenever your kids or pets are outside. The Automower generates small, even grass clippings that fall back to the root of your lawn, forming a kind of micro-mulch that offers organic fertilization.
Commercial Robot Autonomous Mowers
For larger properties and commercial spaces, we utilize the new game-changing Scythe M.52 robotic autonomous mowers. These emission free electric mowers use advanced AI and GPS technology to navigate and mow large areas efficiently. Sustainable, quiet, and designed to handle heavy-duty work that would typically require multiple traditional mowers. The Scythe M.52, 360-degree sensors, adapts to different landscapes, obstacles, and patterns, ensuring a precise and thorough cut.
Integrating these automated mowers into your grass maintenance schedule not only conserves time but also guarantees a neatly kept lawn with little effort. Regardless of whether you own a compact garden or a vast commercial land, there’s an automated mower designed to cater to your requirements.
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Solar Powered Weeding Robot
Hi, I’m Joe Jones, the inventor of Tertill, like Roomba, one of my other inventions. Tertill helps you with an everyday chore, only instead of cleaning your floors, Tertill weeds your garden. Tertill is really easy to use. Simply place Tertill in a weed-free garden to start, either in the early spring or right after you’ve weeded. Press the button to turn it on, and then again tell it to go. That’s it. There’s no programming involved. Tertill will stay in the garden all season, patrolling for weeds in short intervals before stopping to recharge. When it has enough energy, it will automatically set off patrolling again. The only maintenance is to replace the whacker string when it wears down to under an inch.
Tertill doesn’t pull weeds like you or me; it prevents them. Its specially designed wheels scrub the top layer of soil, disrupting weed seeds as they germinate. If any weeds do manage to grow, Tertill cuts them down with its string trimmer. Tertill uses height to determine if something is a plant or a weed. If it’s tall enough to touch the sensors in the robot’s shell, Tertill thinks it’s a plant and turns away. If it’s short enough to pass underneath the robot, Tertill thinks it’s a weed and cuts it. You can use the included metal guards to protect your seeds or delicate plants, like we have done here, until they have grown tall enough for Tertill to sense them.
Since every garden is as unique as the gardener who tends it, we had to set some basic requirements to ensure Tertill can work in yours. For size, each Tertill can maintain up to a 200 square foot garden. This 10 by 20 foot one is a great example. If your garden is larger, you can section off an area for Tertill to maintain or consider getting more than one robot. Your garden needs to have at least a four-inch barrier all the way around to keep Tertill from wandering away or tumbling off any walls, stairs, or slopes. Somewhat conductive materials like metal, wood, or masonry work best. Plastic will contain Tertill, but it will be less efficient in its movements.
Tertill works best on bare soil, composted mulch, or regular bark mulch. It will not work on your lawn or certain mulches like straw, chunky bark mulch, or stones much larger than pea gravel. The surface should be relatively flat and smooth. You can easily remove large rocks or ruts by raking the garden with a leaf rake. And of course, Tertill can only control weeds where it can reach, so plants and rows should be spaced about a foot apart.
To help you monitor your Tertill, we have developed an app for your smartphone. It can also be used to update the robot or to get technical support. One thing that surprises many new Tertill owners is that Tertill does not run all the time. It spends most of the day basking in the sun like its namesake, gathering energy with its solar panel. When it has enough, it sets off roaming the garden for about two to five minutes. When added together, these two to five minute intervals equal about one to two hours of patrolling each day. Tertill will weed on cloudy days, just not as much.
If you are unsure if Tertill will work in your garden, please send a picture to support at tertill.com and we will be happy to give you our professional opinion. Thank you and happy gardening.
The Tertill is a solar powered weeding robot for your garden. This compact gadget is resistant to weather, self-charging, and handles all your weed removal needs. It uses an array of sensors and a tiny rotating string cutter to slice the weed close to the soil.
You’ll want to put plant collars around your smaller plants because the weeder uses a height-based approach. When the robot approaches the collar, it will recognize it and turn away. To prevent the Tertill from straying, your garden requires a small barrier. This could be a fence, an edging that’s no less than two inches high, or the wooden boundary of an elevated bed.
Motion Activated Animal Deterrent
Tired of critters wreaking havoc in your yard? The Orbit Yard Enforcer is a motion-activated sprinkler that combines sound, water, motion, and ingenuity in defense of your yard and garden. Assembling the Yard Enforcer is quick and easy. Simply connect the pieces together, place the sprinkler on the yard using the spike, and connect the Yard Enforcer to a hose. The Yard Enforcer also includes a pass-through port for connecting more than one to the same hose faucet. You can adjust the Yard Enforcer for time of day to be active, distance, duration, and range of motion. As soon as the Yard Enforcer detects motion in your yard, it will come to life, protecting your yard and garden before turning off and silently watching for the next time it is needed, safely and humanely scaring away any unwanted visitors to your yard. Say goodbye to unwanted pests and say hello to a healthy yard.
The Orbit Yard Enforcer is a motion-activated animal deterrent system to keep any hungry visitors from eating up your garden. The device is composed of a sprinkler nozzle positioned over a motion sensor that is staked into the ground.
4-AA batteries power the motion detector. A connection point is situated at the base for attaching your garden hose, or two. When the motion sensor is triggered, the sprinkler discharges a swift burst of water to scare away any animals that might be lurking near your plants. The strong burst of water will not harm wildlife, but is effective in sending deer, rabbits squirrels, birds, and more running!
Don’t have the time to maintain your lawn, but not prepared to invest in a fleet of lawn robots yet? Contact us to hear from our team of landscape maintenance professionals. Timberline Landscaping is also proud to offer Wi-Fi irrigation controllers to start your high-tech landscaping journey.
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