Need some sprinkler system advice.

That's what I was leaning towards. Do you keep the flower beds going until a hard freeze?

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Do you keep the flower beds going until a hard freeze?

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Pretty much yea, unless she pulls up all the flowers then I don't water anything during the winter months.

My flower beds are all small bushes for now. I guess I'll shut her down this afternoon.

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Are your solenoids above ground or under with a cover?

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No idea.

Mine must be underground. Nothing like that. 6 zones. I can shut it off at the meter, it's separate.

I'm still watering 3 days a week. 10 minutes per zone. October is our driest month. I water until 1st freeze then shut it off for the winter. My stuff is underground. I don't drain anything.

Once the grass stops growing much, usually around mid to late Sept here, I shut it off. It has not rained here, but the grass is pretty dormant and fine. The lawn service wants us to shut it off even sooner.

Watering in the fall causes brown patch fungus, those huge patches of discolored grass that will eventually become bare spots.

I see many neighbors who are still watering every day. Wasted money. One has brown patch every place the water hits heavily. Can't take a clue I guess.

I shut mine off at a valve near the meter. Then I open a couple of screws/valves on the backflow preventer, which lets out the pressure in the line. That's it for winter.