Automate your garden and lawn care

You water when you remember, which isn’t the same as watering when the garden actually needs it. A schedule that lives in your head competes with everything else going on that day, and the plant that needed water Tuesday gets it Thursday, if it gets it at all.

Fixing that doesn’t take a green thumb. It takes a system that doesn’t depend on you remembering. IFTTT connects the moisture sensors, irrigation controllers, and mowers already on the market, so your garden and lawn get attention on their own schedule instead of yours.

Learn to garden

For aspiring horticulturists, reading about plant care and setting up a watering schedule can be extremely helpful first steps. There is even an Applet to remind you to bring in your plants if the temperature dips!

Automate lawn care

Mowing used to mean setting aside an afternoon and getting grass clippings all over your pants. Husqvarna, Robolinho®, and Indego Connect are among the smart mowers that connect to IFTTT, and once they're connected, the mowing schedule stops being something you have to remember at all.

Set it up so mowing skips days when the soil's too wet, or send the mower back to its dock automatically before an irrigation cycle starts.

Water on the weather's schedule, not the clock

Plenty of weather systems and irrigation devices connect to IFTTT, which makes it straightforward to keep a regular watering schedule, or trigger a watering cycle directly off the weather itself. Delay a cycle when rain's already falling, or start one automatically when temperatures climb past a threshold, so the schedule adjusts itself instead of watering on a fixed clock regardless of conditions.

Water based on what your soil actually needs

A schedule is a guess. A moisture sensor is an answer. Instead of watering on a timer and hoping it's the right amount, a sensor in the ground can tell your irrigation system exactly when the soil's too dry to skip, or already wet enough to skip a scheduled cycle entirely, so you stop both underwatering and wasting water on a lawn that didn't need it that day.

Check in on your plants without checking on your plants

A windowsill garden doesn't need a sprinkler system, it needs someone to notice when something's off. Ask your voice assistant for a plant status update and get one back instantly, or press a button and have the same report sent to you. When conditions call for it, EarthOne can trigger something else automatically too, turning on a grow light or blinking a light as an alert, so the plant gets what it needs even when you're not the one who caught the problem.

Connect your garden and lawn care tools to IFTTT

Whichever devices you're already using, they're one connection away from working together.

Let your garden run itself

None of this requires replacing what you already own. A mower, a moisture sensor, an irrigation controller, whatever’s already sitting in your yard is probably already IFTTT-enabled, and connecting it is usually a five-minute setup, not a new purchase.

The point isn't a fully automated garden that never needs you. It's not needing to be the one who remembers every watering day, every mowing day, and every cold snap. Pick one automation from above and let it run in the background while you focus on the parts of gardening you actually enjoy.