Soil Moisture Sensors: Honest Expectations for Residential Sites

Soil moisture gear works when the probe sits in the root zone of the plants that valve serves. Stick it in the easy mulch by the controller and you will irrigate based on fiction.

Pair with Hydrawise or a compatible Hunter controller only after the base schedule is sane. Sensors refine; they do not invent good hydraulics.

Tell the owner what the sensor will and will not do. Overpromising is how the device ends up bypassed in July.