When we think about technological innovations for the home, the garden is hardly the first place that comes to mind. Nevertheless, technology is an intricate part of garden maintenance for homeowners and professional gardeners/landscapers alike today. On that note, let's look at a few key innovations that can actively improve and simplify garden management.
The Portable High-Pressure Water Washer
Water can be pressurized to do some amazing things and one of them is immaculate outdoor cleaning. Pressurized washers are not exactly new to yard cleaning, of course, but the performance that we can now get from even a portable model these days has improved exponentially. Something that looks like a small trolley bag can easily clean the yard at 2,100 psi or even higher if needed.
The Brushless Leaf Blower
The brushless leaf blower has changed the market for manufacturers and homeowners alike. As the term itself suggests, these are powered by brushless motors and, as a result,
Brushless leaf blowers are considerably more energy efficient.
Since they are energy efficient, they cost less money to run in the short and the long term.
Like most electronic devices that run on a brushless motor, leaf blowers need only minimum maintenance.
Brushless leaf blowers also generate less heat, noise, and vibration.
At some point, they used to be significantly more expensive than their counterparts, but brushless leaf blowers are no longer as expensive as they used to be. Considering the reduction in noise and energy bills, these leaf blowers have pretty much become the default upgrade for garden maintenance nowadays.
The Cordless, Brushless Lawn Mower
A lush green carpet of well-trimmed natural grass is inarguably one of the most beautiful elements of outdoor garden décor and the cordless, brushless lawn mower makes maintaining them a lot easier. Now, maintaining grass at a specific height throughout the gardening year requires a lot of precision mowing, so you will still have your work cut out for you.
However, modern battery-powered lawnmowers with brushless motors do make every mowing session go a lot faster while consuming less energy at the same time. Especially when you compare the size, noise, battery life, performance, and precision of the modern brushless lawn mower to previous generations of standard lawnmowers, the differences are profound.
The Smart Irrigator
The bigger versions of these smart machines with external sprinklers are used extensively in commercial agriculture all over the US now. Garden-sized smart irrigators pretty much do the same things as their industrial counterparts, which means that you can install one of these to:
Set up automatic sprinkler activation at any specific time that you need to.
Each sprinkler can be programmed to activate at different times to water different parts of the garden.
You can even set the system up to automatically water your garden on an as-needed basis if the system supports soil moisture detection.
You can download irrigation modules for specific plants and pre-program any smart irrigator accordingly.
Safe to say that if you are willing to step out of your present setup, there are even more garden management tech items out there to help you get more for your efforts. You can use the extra time and the money saved on improving the more complex aspects of gardening, which requires a more delicate touch.
