The sad news first. After taking a look at Gardena’s US website, it appears that they don’t sell the drip systems over there. Not a major problem for us since our little farm is here in Germany, but very sad for all of our readers in the US.
The control unit we wanted is called the C1060 Profi Solar. It is a computer which plugs into your garden faucet and controls the water flow through the drip hoses. This is the only Gardena control unit which can control 6 different zones and supports a moisture sensor. It really is quite ingenious.
While shopping at the local home improvement store we couldn’t help ourselves and had to look at the irrigation stuff. Not that we wanted to buy anything today, but we just needed to see the things in real life rather than on the internet. the only thing we knew for certain was that the C1o6o would become the control unit. Normally these things retail for 115 Euros, but we happened to find one with an old price tag – 99 Euros. All the others were marked with the regular price. We decided we would go for it – the label said it was the right sticker on the right unit. If they said this was wrong the price, we could always fork over the extra money or leave it there.
When the girl at the checkout counter rang the item up the item came up at 115 Euro, darn it. But hubby inquired why it showed up at that price rather than the 99 Euro on the sticker and the girl said it must be wrong in the system, since this clearly is the sticker for that box. So, to make a long story short, we got it for 99 Euro – very sweet!
