Automate · Smart Yard
Stop watering the beds in the rain.
Drip lines on your garden beds, run from your garden hose tap on a smart hose timer that checks the weather. Rain barrels off the downspout for the plants that like it. Nothing permanently installed, nothing buried, nothing cut into your pipes, nothing to do with your sprinkler system.
Everything on this page screws onto a hose bib and comes off the same way.
What's included
- A smart hose timer on your garden hose tapWaters on weather, skips the rain, runs from your phone.
- Drip line on up to two garden bedsWith a filter and pressure regulator on the timer.
- Mulch over the dripSo the water stays where you put it.
- A standalone soil-moisture sensor in the bed that matters mostSo you can see when it's actually dry.
- Set up and tested in front of youAnd it's on your Umbra dashboard.
Install time: one visit, about 3 hours.
Starting price$395
Starting at $395 for the timer and two beds. Extra beds $95 each. Rain barrel, from $245 each installed — 50-gallon barrel, downspout diverter, stand and overflow. Nothing connects to the house's water supply. The lid is screened so it doesn't breed mosquitoes, and rain-harvesting gear is sales-tax exempt in Texas — we bring the form.
Prices are before Texas sales tax, which applies to some of this work and not to other parts. The quote shows it as a line.
Book Smart YardWhat we don't do — read this before you book
We don't sell, design, install, maintain, alter, repair, service, adjust, consult on or quote sprinkler systems, and we don't connect anything to your water supply. In Texas that is licensed irrigation work (TCEQ Landscape Irrigator), and we don't hold that licence. We won't touch your sprinkler controller, valves or heads, and we won't connect anything to them. Everything on this page screws onto a hose bib and comes off the same way.
Why this works in Brownsville
The beds and the trees are where most of a Valley yard's water goes, and they're the part that gives up first in a hot week. A timer that reads the forecast stops the beds being watered in the rain, without a licensed system anywhere near it.
And a rain barrel keeps a fruit tree going through a watering restriction, on water you already caught off the roof.
Keep it working after we leave.
Smart-home gear doesn't stay set up on its own. Care Plans start at $19 a month, and you can cancel any time.