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Lawn Watering
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Spencer,
Youre getting good advice about watering, but also consider what type of grass you have in these different areas. If you have the right type of grass in each of these areas you may be able cut back on your watering, and still have nice green grass covering your whole lawn. Try visiting Seedland, they have plenty of information on grasses.
Youre getting good advice about watering, but also consider what type of grass you have in these different areas. If you have the right type of grass in each of these areas you may be able cut back on your watering, and still have nice green grass covering your whole lawn. Try visiting Seedland, they have plenty of information on grasses.
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I am interested in this subject also. I live east of Dallas in Rockwall and I have a 25000-30000 sq. ft. yard with a sprinkler system. I have 144 sprinkler heads on 12 different "stations". It scares me that someone above said they water each area 4 HOURS and another 1 HOUR per week. If I did that there is no way I could afford my water bill. Don't get me wrong, you may need to water that long but, ****, I water about 25-30 minutes in each station once a week and I can EASILY use over 30,000 gallons of water a month.
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<font color="blue"> I can EASILY use over 30,000 gallons of water a month. </font>
No doubt of that! I water a fair amount of my property - the lawn is probably only about 8000 sq. ft. but I also try to keep the pastures green (about 4 acres). I'm in fire country. Where I live some of us lucky folks can buy irrigation water that comes down from reservoirs through the old gold mining canals. I buy the equivilant of about 30,000 gallons per day (the actual amount is measured in "miners inches") and I'm often wishing I had more.
I couldn't imagine paying metered rates to try and irrigate. For some folks that move out here they discover that (for whatever reason) they can't get the irrigation water. It would be horrible to buy a bunch of property and then not be able to irrigate. Wells are pretty hard to sink, here, so that is often not an option.
But here in the very dry West you do have to water that much or the darn stuff dies. Normally we don't get any rain at all from about now through October - but as I type it is raining like crazy and is supposed to continue for the next two days. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
No doubt of that! I water a fair amount of my property - the lawn is probably only about 8000 sq. ft. but I also try to keep the pastures green (about 4 acres). I'm in fire country. Where I live some of us lucky folks can buy irrigation water that comes down from reservoirs through the old gold mining canals. I buy the equivilant of about 30,000 gallons per day (the actual amount is measured in "miners inches") and I'm often wishing I had more.
I couldn't imagine paying metered rates to try and irrigate. For some folks that move out here they discover that (for whatever reason) they can't get the irrigation water. It would be horrible to buy a bunch of property and then not be able to irrigate. Wells are pretty hard to sink, here, so that is often not an option.
But here in the very dry West you do have to water that much or the darn stuff dies. Normally we don't get any rain at all from about now through October - but as I type it is raining like crazy and is supposed to continue for the next two days. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
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Like the guys said the spring back of the grass, and one inch of water unless its running off tuna can works good also. Don't know if you've heard of him but Jerry Baker has some good books on lawn and gardens with things to use before real cemicals. Hes printed some interesting stuff, anyway try http://www.jerrybaker.com
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Tony
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Tony