Watering Tips For Your Established Lawn

Watering Tips For Your Established Lawn

Your lawn is composed of approximately 90% water, therefore any minor change in water availability places your lawn under stress.  The term "proper watering" means applying enough water to soak the soil several inches in depth.  This encourages deep rooting, deep rooting is our goal for a resilient and healthy lawn.  Watering frequency usually should be determined by the weather.  If your lawn is exposed to approximately four days of temperatures over 60 degrees without a good rainfall, this will cause light drought stress. 

Change in color and density will be a signal of stress.  During the hot summer months it is vitally important not to over water with frequency.  In other words, deep waterings with dry time between, is far better than light frequent waterings.  Light frequent waterings sounds good, seems good, but is actually harmful and superficial.  Light frequent waterings moisten the surface and causes a swamp like effect.

Warmth, moisture and darkness are three elements that create fungi or disease.  Disease is trouble, usually 9 out of 10 times we recommend a watering change rather than a chemical application.  If watering practices do not change, the disease will still be prevalent, usually the watering change corrects the problems.  Unfortunately, there is so many different factors to a healthy lawn, watering is only one major component.