I wish I could collect data on everything around me. I just moved into the new house and I’ve experienced the joys of having a lawn to take care of. Problem is, it wasn’t watered enough during early June and there are some brown areas. I’ve been trying to hit it hard with the sprinkler system, but I’m never really sure if I’m watering too much or too little.
I’ve been looking at getting one of these a Davis Vantage Pro weather station. The cool thing is you can add a soil moisture sensor and pin down exactly what the moisture situation is. The other cool thing is you can add the station to Weather Underground.
I’m pretty blown away by what they run $$$ though. I need to spend $1k to monitor my lawn like I need a hole in the head.
Buddy, you let the grass go brown and let it hibernate through droughts.
Don’t water it , it brings the roots to the top and one good heat wave and all those roots will die - not brown, but black with death.
In the spring and fall, re-seed. As required.
Better idea would be to re-think how much grass you really want.
Prior to about 1930, nobody thought having grass meant squat. You really want to jump on that beggar your neighbour bandwagon?
i actually reckon this is pretty much an entrepreneur’s mentality. testing. assimilating, and then using that knowledge and skills to produce the outcome you want. green grass! (or it could just be a story about making grass..)
I wouldn’t want you as a neighbor michael webster. The guy that installed my sprinklers told me 30 minutes in the morning and that worked allright for me. I guess if you do it in the morning it has a chance to dry out throughout the day which is ideal. All I know is my grass is really green and we haven’t had rain in a couple weeks.
David,
Yeah that’s right 30 minutes in the morning is all you need. And if you want to cut it more and have a dark green lawn, put down some high nitrogen fertilizer in the spring and again in the fall. And make sure you cut it short that last time you cut it in the fall so that it has a good start in the spring.
Best time to seed is the spring and fall when it’s cool.
- Richard