This Universal Lawn Care Tip covers correct watering systems and how watering correctly is an imperative part to the healthiness of our grass, we’ll look at watering to gain the best benefit and see how getting it wrong can cause an infestation of disease.

Methods and watering times change depending on lawn varieties climates and regions, so precise we are going to stay with our universal lawn care truths that are fitted to all lawn varieties and in all regions of the Earth. Fortunately, there are many set truths that have an application to all grasslands that just need minor adjustments relying on circumstances.

1 ) Water infrequently and awfully - the key here is to push a deep root system that will bear hot weather, and has water generally available to the roots below the evaporation level in the soil. Customarily two times a week for 20-30 minutes is acceptable in warmer weather for warm season varieties such as Bermuda (couch) and St. Augustine (buffalo), and three times per week for cool season bunching grasses such as Fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass.

2 ) Water in the morning - watering in the morning gives water to our gardens at exactly the one time the turf can take water into it’s system, in the day! The vascular system of lawns circulates water and nutrients throughout the grass plant, the vascular system draws power from daylight - therefore lawns cannot absorb water at night. Whenever lawns are watered at night, a huge quantity of that water is drained away deep into to the soil and water table and wasted, the turf now requires more water to stay healthy, and we’ve just wasted one of our most valuable resources.

Night time watering also promotes fungal illnesses on lawns when water is left sitting on the lawn leaf overnite, the difficulty is compounded in hotter regions when hotter nights create a warm clammy environment on the turf which promote fungal expansion and disease.

3 ) Never water daily - daily watering and over-watering promote a shallow root system which can simply kill a lawn in warmer weather, and a lawn which is water logged from absence of oxygen in the soil. Lawns like these are frail and simply damaged from wear and tear.

4) Adjust watering as needed - Keep an eye on watering times and adjust as obligatory depending on temperature and rainfall. We want to adjust to give enough water, and adjust not to give too much, both extremes are similarly damaging to turf.

5 ) Wetting Agents - these are an amazing addition to every lawn and garden across the globe today. Wetting Agents break down the waxy coating on grains of soil like dishwashing liquid breaks down grease from a frying pan, the result’s a more even distribution of water throughout the soil profile, decrease in dry patches that can sometimes occur in grasslands, and most importantly is the capability of the turf to hang of water for longer periods of time, which allows for far more water being available to the grass, providing proofing against heat stress and a decrease in the quantity of water needed for a healthy lawn.

Our next Universal Lawn Care Tip debates Lawn Manure , which talks about why we want to use fertilizers, how we should use them and the way to select the right one for our lawn and our region.