You don't say what area you live in, and you might have a type of grass that's
dorment in winter and greens up for spring/ summer.
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"Lil" wrote in message
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Hi all!
I don't know too much about lawns so forgive my ignorance...
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. 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? 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.)
The lawn is now mostly brown and the only green appears to consist of
coarse grass (crabgrass?) that puts forth tall spikes with something
that resembles wild oats at the ends. These grasses are very coarse
and poky, and are really tough to yank out...
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...
Thanks in advance for your help!
Lil
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