Irrigation: A yearly headache!

Utah is a very dry state and if we plants anything and expect it to grow, we need to irrigate. So, almost every home, even higher up in our Park City mountains, relies on some kind of watering system made up of a number of stations that are driven by a programmer. 

Since everyone has different requirement for watering that might have to do with the kind of plants that need to be fed or the local regulations that are increasingly restrictive as we’re moving into a permanent state of drought, this requires a programming system fairly sophisticated and therefore quite complicated to figure out. 

Just imagine that you were using your smartphone or computer only once a year, you wouldn’t remember a thing about its operating system given its inherent complexity. That’s exactly the situation I find myself into come the end of May or the beginning of June when it’s time to re-start our irrigation system. 

I simply go crazy trying to remember how it works, mess it up, do it over, check by watching a YouTube tutorial, and since the system is all but user’s friendly, it ends up taking me half a day to reprogram the whole system. Then, of course, I forget all this hard mental work till the following year!