Watering your lawn may seem like a time consuming and unnecessary task. In some cases, watering your lawn may exceed the city or county water restrictions; in which case, you should look into other lawn fertilizers – like turf.

Typically, cities and communities only restrict water usage in times of drought, making it possible for a majority of Americans to water lawns and flowerbeds as needed.

Using Sprinklers for Easy Hydration

Watering your lawn by hand can be a long process, and most people don’t have time to devote to continuous lawn maintenance. Adding a sprinkler system to a lawn is an easy way to automatically tend to you lawn’s needs, and you can constantly adjust and monitor the amount of water that sprinklers use on your lawn.

Make sure that when you use a sprinkler system you understand what lawn areas need more hydration than others. Also, place your sprinklers in strategic locations in order to reduce water waste and best utilize your sprinkler.

When to Water

In order to keep a lawn healthy, you should be able to recognize early signs of dehydration and take action to prevent further destruction. Dehydration signs and symptoms include: wilting, yellowing/browning of leaves, shriveling of leaves, slow plant growth or premature blossoming, incorrectly colored foliage, and wilted or broken stems.

If your lawn shows any of these signs, you need to pour a little more love into it so that you can have a beautiful landscape. In order to make the biggest impact, water the lawn in the early morning. If sprinklers turn on in the middle of the hot summer day, you lose up to half of the water intended for your lawn through evaporation.

Where to Water

Unnecessary runoff wastes large amounts of water that could be used in lawn hydration. Remember to place sprinklers in locations that they can evenly distribute water across a landscape while reducing runoff.

The best way to get results when watering is to water deeply and slightly less frequently than necessary. Watering a lawn deeply encourages plants to grow deep roots. Deep roots mean that the plant’s roots will be able to escape some of the scorching summer heat, making them less vulnerable to the elements.

Finding the balance between under-watering and over-watering your lawn can be difficult, but the rewards of having a beautiful and vibrant landscape are definitely worth the effort.

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