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Watering Lawns
A few days ago there was a lengthy discussion about how often lawns needed to
be watered. My current lawn, small monkey grass (liriope), the kind that has fine blades and grows to about 8 inches, was sprigged in the spring of 1995. I have photo links below. This grass has not had water applied since the day it was sprigged in and has never shown any signs of distress, even when we were going through the worst dry months these past 4 years here in Georgia. It is always the dark green color year around and weeds can't make their way through it. I do have to walk over it in May & June and pull up tree seedlings that sprout up through it, mostly pine, tulip popular and sycamore. This takes 1/2 day each time. That, and cutting with the lawn mower in March and again in September is the total lawn care needed for this lawn. I do apply a light application of 8-8-8 fertilizer mixed 50% with dolomite limestone just after cutting in March. The photo here is an overall view from the street http://avionclub.org/full_grass_lawn.html The view here is a close-up showing the texture of the grass and the current height of 6 inches. http://avionclub.org/full_grass_depth.html The dirt before starting this lawn was North Georgia red clay. I hauled in enough well rotted horse stable cleanings to cover the whole lawn to a depth of over 10 inches. I then used a rototiller to work it into the soil to over 12 inches deep from the original clay surface, giving me a soft loamy soil over 16 inches deep. Nothing has needed to be done since. Tom J who likes his lawn |
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