Summer and Your Lawn
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In the Western U.S. it is the beginning of irrigation season. Back East, the Spring rains might persist some years, but generally this is the season when lawns begin to get just a bit stressed. It’s not yet watering time, but signs are available all around. A few drier lawns are showing a bit of brown at this time of year, usually those lawns on hillsides which don’t really keep water, or else sunny spots that catch the warm, evaporating Sun all day.
It’s not a bad idea to be proactive with watering, for those who have it. It’s also a perfect time to feed the lawns, at the tail end of rainy Springtime. Fertilizing will make the grass power out its deep green color, retaining and absorbing the iron and nitrogen for the greenest green color. The roots will totally enjoy expanding and livening up with all that good Potassium. A well-timed fertilizing can extend a green lawn’s lushest time by a month or more, if done right.
Cutting the lawn at a bit higher mode will also extend the greenness. It not only looks lusher, but the longer and larger planes of the blades will store and catch dew in the mornings and extend any watering by percentage points.
Do these two things before entering the more serious watering regimes and you’ll be a lot better off. These tactics actually save water as well.
