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21-04-2003, 01:44 PM

(Lil) wrote:

We got the lawn with the house and not knowing any better, we
proceeded to water our lawn everyday for 7 min. a day. This went on
for several months and the lawn has gotten progressively browner and
browner. When I asked, it seems that that was the wrong way of
watering the lawn.

Yup. Frequent shallow watering can kill almost anything.

So now, we've been watering the lawn 3 times a
week for 15 min. each time real early in the morning (it gets warm in
the afternoons) to maximize water absorption. (I'm still not sure if
I'm watering the lawn properly because I noticed that about 3 hours
after watering the grass was dry and the dirt beneath the grass was
only moist. Shouldn't the grass be soggier even after 3 hours?

No - the water on the LEAVES does it no good. The water in the
SOIL helps things grow.

It
may be that most of the water the sprinkler system is delivering is
not being absorbed--we have clay soil--and is stimply running off the
sidewalk.)

Have you looked? Inspecting the sprinklers is the only way to
find out what they are doing.

So the questions are, can we resuscitate whatever bit of lawn we have
and can we get rid of the coarse grass that's taking over the lawn?

I'm not keen on resodding because of the expense and because there's
no guarantee we won't kill the next lawn...

You can probably overseed ... where do you live?

Tsu

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