Last Updated on January 2, 2025 by Brian Beck
Automated Mowing, Smart Irrigation, & Biology
It’s 2024, and we have been working on a system that improves the lawn in three ways. We have recognized (back in 2017) that the system of maintaining a lawn was flawed and severely wasteful and people were giving up on their lawns. What I had witnessed the industry do was inefficient, wasteful, and sometimes illogical in their problem-solving approach. I wanted more. Two things came into my universe that fall: robotic mowing and the regenerative soil organic biological program.
Since then, we have been working on automating lawn mowing with robotic mowers and smart irrigation systems that can escape the traditional manual problems, all while eliminating soil dehydration, one of our biggest issues with lawns today.
Please allow me to explain.
Mowing with a gas-powered mower has several limitations, the biggest being that you must be there. One of the other issues is the huge waste of energy (1 horsepower is equal to 745 watts). It takes about 100 watts to cut the tips of grass. Automated mowing should be viewed as a process of mowing an already lawn. That way, the lawn is always cut and much healthier.
The soil along the front range is very poor for several reasons.
- Unhealthy pH: pH allows nutrients to get into the plant efficiently
- The lack of carbon or organic matter: The soil must be above 3%. It is routinely below 2.5% or even 2%. For every 1% increase in carbon, 1000 sqft of soil will hold over 600 gallons of water or one inch of rain for later use.
- The compaction: largely due to a lack of microbiology from the salts of synthetic fertilizers.
All this chaos and turmoil costs you big time when the rubber hits the road, and you have to do extra work due to these inadequacies in the soil.
Irrigation systems can only operate 6 months out of the year. Still, we have developed methods that enable the system to run for 9 months and soon another system that will allow irrigation systems to run for 12 months, regulating themselves to keep the soil hydrated and maintain continuity in the soil rather than playing catchup every spring, wasting money and begging for wasted money in the form of repair and replacement.
There is a better way. We have tied all of these areas together in a system called “The Trinity System,” a system that drives down the cost of a lawn, maintains consistency, reduces harmful substances, minimizes weeds, and improves the lawn’s quality and health.
Give us a call. We have found a better way.
(719) 380-0136