Grass maintenance!
Jun 5th 2007, 1:04 pm
#1
Thread Starter
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 3,254
Grass maintenance!
Our lawn is going really yellow and seems to be dying with the sun. It was fine until this really hot weather we are having, but now it looks awful. It gets a good watering everynight and morning before the sun comes up. Is there anyone out there that knows what we are doing wrong? We have only had the lawn since January so havent had to tend to it in hot weather.
Jun 5th 2007, 1:13 pm
#2
Senior Moment
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: On the edge
Posts: 20,460
Re: Grass maintenance!
Our lawn is going really yellow and seems to be dying with the sun. It was fine until this really hot weather we are having, but now it looks awful. It gets a good watering everynight and morning before the sun comes up. Is there anyone out there that knows what we are doing wrong? We have only had the lawn since January so havent had to tend to it in hot weather.
Jun 5th 2007, 1:15 pm
#3
Thread Starter
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 3,254
Re: Grass maintenance!
We have an irrigation system, but the pipes dont pop up. Hubby thinks it could be to do with the water pressure. We do stand there for about 15 minutes morning and night giving it a good soak. I can see us having to pave it before the summers over :curse:
Jun 5th 2007, 1:17 pm
#4
Senior Moment
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: On the edge
Posts: 20,460
Re: Grass maintenance!
I have to hang glide down to the bottom of the garden
Jun 5th 2007, 1:18 pm
#5
this is me
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: Jerez
Posts: 832
Re: Grass maintenance!
Our friends water theres for ages the have a hose that is attached to a sprinkler system. theres is green all year round
Jun 5th 2007, 1:43 pm
#9
RETIRED ;-))
Joined: Jul 2003
Location: Benalmadena Pueblo,Spain
Posts: 20,156
Jun 5th 2007, 1:48 pm
#10
Senior Moment
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: On the edge
Posts: 20,460
Re: Grass maintenance!
Jun 5th 2007, 1:55 pm
#12
Straw Man.
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: That, there, that's not my post count... nothing to see here, move along.
Posts: 46,302
Re: Grass maintenance!
It only really applies to water soluble feeds, the minerals will kill them.
The main reason you don't water during the day is that you lose a greater percentage of it due to evaporation than is absorbed, and you should never water the foliage anyway, it causes too much top growth, not enough root growth.
Jun 5th 2007, 1:56 pm
#13
Straw Man.
Joined: Aug 2006
Location: That, there, that's not my post count... nothing to see here, move along.
Posts: 46,302
Jun 5th 2007, 1:56 pm
#14
Senior Moment
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: On the edge
Posts: 20,460
Re: Grass maintenance!
Its a bit of a myth to be honest, otherwise plants would die every time it rains during daylight hours.
It only really applies to water soluble feeds, the minerals will kill them.
The main reason you don't water during the day is that you lose a greater percentage of it due to evaporation than is absorbed, and you should never water the foliage anyway, it causes too much top growth, not enough root growth.
It only really applies to water soluble feeds, the minerals will kill them.
The main reason you don't water during the day is that you lose a greater percentage of it due to evaporation than is absorbed, and you should never water the foliage anyway, it causes too much top growth, not enough root growth.