Show Date: 09 Jun 09

If you don’t want to be a slave to watering (by making sure your lawn gets an inch a week to keep lush), then I suggest just keeping it alive.

When your lawn looks like toast it has gone dormant. To keep it alive but NOT green and lush you can give it a quarter to a third of an inch of water every 2 to 4 weeks, and limit the traffic on your lawn.

Your lawn is in a weakened state and more susceptible to weeds but you can feel good that you’re not wasting water just to have your lawn look good. I know, you’ve worked hard on that lawn. If you must, then water early in the morning and have an inground watering system to lessen transpiration (i.e. your grass gets the water rather than the atmosphere).

Show Date: 08 Jun 09

Not quite this dry, yet?

All your new plantings need, on average, an inch of water a week.

Trees and shrubs that have been established are tougher with deeper roots able to stretch down and get a drink from further below. Plants less than 3-years old need our help.

With these cool temps and not much rain, our peppers won’t set fruit either. It’s going to be a slower year for crops. Drip irrigation is by far the best bet to our plants and the environment. The water gets right to where it needs to go, no loss to the atmosphere and fungal diseases aren’t spread by splashing of water on leaves.