2 Tips To Get Your Lawn Healthy And Summer-Ready
Posted on: 12 May 2018
Spring time provides prime weather to begin boosting the health and appearance of your lawn before the summer heat sets in. Here are two tips to get your lawn healthy and attractive in appearance with the proper watering for this upcoming summer.
Measure the Water Delivery
Whether your water supply connecting to your yard's irrigation system is from the city water, a water well, or reclaimed water, the amount of water pressure your home gets can vary greatly. The amount of water your home gets can affect your lawn's watering and require you to adjust its delivery time.
For example, if you own water rights through irrigation that you share with other neighboring homeowners, depending on when others are using water from the system, it can make your water pressure lower or higher. If you use the irrigation water in the morning when everyone else is watering their yards, your water pressure will be lower and cause your sprinklers to put out less water.
Measure your home's water output with your irrigation sprinklers. Place an empty pie tin or empty tuna can in your yard where your sprinklers are watering and measure the water depth in the container after 15 minutes of watering. Multiply this by four to find out how many inches of water your sprinklers deliver each hour. Lawns need an average of one inch of water each week, depending on the climate you live in and your soil's conditions. So if you live in a hot, dry climate, your lawn may need a bit more watering.
Water Less Frequently
You may think the more often and longer you water your lawn, the healthier and better it will grow, but this is not true. If you water your lawn too much, it can cause the lawn to grow fungus and become diseased. On the converse, if you water too little, it can cause your lawn to burn and grow a shallow root system, which can also cause disease.
Instead of watering your lawn every other day for twenty minutes, for example, it is better to water your lawn once a week for a longer duration. As your lawn's roots are prompted to grow more deeply to reach the deeper-saturated moisture from the longer watering, this promotes your lawn to be healthier and more drought-tolerant.
It is also a good idea to feed your lawn a turf-building fertilizer that promotes its root and blade growth and helps to use water more effectively. Many fertilizers include weed control to get rid of weeds in your lawn which fight for and take away from your lawn necessary water and nutrients.
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