WaterRight Gardens Webtool
Web-based tool to assist you to develop watering schedules tailored to your garden.
What is it?
The WaterRight Gardens Webtool will help you explore how much water your garden needs to remain healthy, and the best time to apply this water. It is based on the soil, vegetation and climate characteristics of Canberra's residential gardens. It will help you understand the factors that affect your own garden and lawn watering needs, including plants, soil, wind, shade, rain and the season.
Is this Webtool for me?
You can use the WaterRight Gardens Webtool to develop specific watering advice to meet your plant, soil and microclimate characteristics.
The Webtool does not apply to: established trees or plants taller than 2 metres; new plantings that are being established; potted plants; vegetable gardens and annuals; or indoor plants.
To use the Webtool, you will need:
- Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla (Firefox) 2.0 or above
- Pop-ups, cookies and JavaScripts enabled
- a minimum screen resolution of 1280x1024.
Whether or not you decide to use the Webtool, if you would like to learn more about the factors that influence garden water use, you can refer to the WaterRight Gardens Best Practice Guidelines 
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264 kB) and Fact Sheets .
How do I access it?
You can access the WaterRight Gardens Webtool from the
Think water, act water website
Find out more
For more information, call Canberra Connect on 13 22 81.
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