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Home » Recent Newsletters » Caring for your Lawn in the Summer

Caring for your Lawn in the Summer

Published : September 11, 2011

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Tips for Keeping Your Lawn Alive in this Heat.

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Is Your Lawn Just Brown or is it Dead?

Here in Ohio I often here people say; “Don’t water
your lawn, just let it go dormant.  As soon as it
rains it will green right back up.”

Is that true?

Partially.  It’s true to an extent.  Here in the north
we have cool season grasses.  In the hot southern states
they have warm season grasses.  Warm season grasses can
take the heat much better than cool season grasses.

It is true that cool season grasses will turn brown
and go dormant during the extreme heat.  But there is
a fine line between dormant and dead, you must know
where that line is if you want to have a nice lawn
come fall.

So here’s the scoop.

If you have a nice lush green lawn that is made up of
fine textured rye grasses, fescues and bluegrass you
may not have to water during  hot dry spells.  The
cool season grasses in your lawn will go dormant.  But
even dormant grasses need some water.  Two, maybe three
weeks of a drought probably won’t be a problem.

But if your yard is like mine, mostly sandy soil or
gravel soil, much longer than that without water there
is a good chance that much of your lawn will die out
completely and never come back.  You know when that
has happened when the crabgrass and weeds start growing
like crazy.

People who never water their lawns get away with it
because the desirable grasses that once made up their
lawn died off long ago and now their lawn is mostly
thick bladed quack grass or some other undesirable
species.

So if you have a nice lawn, give it a drink at least
once every two weeks if you don’t have any rain, and
by no means should you apply any fertilizer when your
lawn is under stress from drought.

Make somebody you love happy!  Give them a copy of my
plant propagation book!
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Have a great week and stay inspired!
-Mike McGroarty

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