Watering our lawns is another one of the simplest aspects of good lawn care that so many of us get wrong so often. Most of us without a good annual lawn care program, and those of us who are often so busy in our everyday lives, simply place little importance onto the proper watering of our lawns so that they can grow and be maintained in maximum health throughout the years.
Many of us who are busy will often neglect the watering needs of our lawns, and only remember to turn on the sprinklers once in a while, which of course leads to an unhealthy lawn, which is often brown, sometimes dying, and often weak, with bare patches and prone to weed invasions.
Others who have the good fortune of having an irrigation system installed for our turf will most usually set the irrigation on timers which water the lawn on set days of the week for set periods of time. This practice, while it leads to a green lawn can actually be just as damaging to the turf as not watering the lawn often enough. These problems can be seen in things such as an increase in lawn disease from excessive and unnecessary watering, as well as the creation of a shallow rooted lawn which is highly prone to heat damage in the Summer, or may even result in a quick death to the lawn in times of water restrictions or drought when combined with the summer heat. A frequently watered lawn will always have shallow roots which will dry out very quickly, and thus cause lawn damage as a result when stressful conditions arise. Such watering programs also waste an excessive amount of water by watering the lawn when it is unnecessary.
Instead, of these two options just mentioned, we must follow a lawn watering routine which is actually very easy, and takes very little of our time, and which as a result will maintain a healthy lawn which is more naturally resistant to weeds and diseases, as well as a lawn with a deep root system which is naturally more heat and drought resistant, while using less water.
The correct way to water all lawns is to allow the turf itself to tell us when it needs a drink.
This practice is actually very easy, and all it takes is for us to have a quick walk over our lawns to check on the condition of the turf. If the sod looks fine, then we don't water, but if the sod looks like its showing early signs of wilting in the leaf, then this is the lawn telling us it needs a drink. And its at this time that we give the lawn a very long and deep drink of water, so as to water deeply into the soil profile, and not just watering the top surface of the soil.
It really is that simple. In the Summer time we will obviously need to check the lawn a little more often than in the Spring or the Fall, and the entire process of checking the lawn health only takes a minute or two.
The benefits to the turf in using this system are massive when compared to the other methods of watering already mentioned. The lawn is never being neglected to go into a state of dying off, and the lawn is never being over-watered. Instead, the lawn is allowed to naturally go searching for water by sending its roots deeper and deeper into the soil profile. Its this process of creating very deep roots into the soil which makes the turf far less prone to dehydration and far more drought tolerant, as well as allowing the lawn to survive on far less water than by using any other type of watering system.
This then leads us onto watering the lawn deeply whenever we do water the lawn. In doing so, we are wetting the deeper soil profile to maintain the roots of the turf as deeply as possible below the evaporation level, If on the other hand, we were to water the lawn only shallow, the deeper roots would die off to allow for new roots to grow closer to the surface of the soil where the majority of moisture is located, thus the lawn becomes prone to quick heat or drought damage from its now shallow root system.
We can now clearly see the differences between watering our lawns properly, when compared to other common methods of lawn watering. Correct lawn watering will maintain a healthy, green and lush lawn which is highly resistant to weeds, pests and diseases, is highly drought tolerant, is highly heat stress tolerant, will use far less water than standard lawn irrigation systems use, and best of all will leave us with a lawn which is the pride and envy of the street.
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