Watering early in the morning reduces evaporation while decreasing the amount of time the blades stay wet. The longer the grass remains wet, the greater the potential for disease.
The worst times of day to water lawns are late morning a. When you do mow, keep the mower blade on the highest setting and try not to remove more than a third of the grass at any one time. Longer is better — so skip the golf course crop and let grass grow a little longer during the heat of summer. When left a little taller, grass is more resilient and can head off disease and drought better than shorter blades. Try a mulching mower or a mulching blade so clippings stay put.
Decomposing clippings contribute organic matter to soil and actually help fertilize lawns. Important: Never apply pesticides or fertilizers to lawns suffering from heat or drought stress. Wait until things cool off and conditions moderate. Certain lawn pests make their appearance during the dog days of summer. Now is the time to watch for chinch bug injury, which causes grass to wilt, turn yellow, then brown, and eventually die. The diagram below illustrates this with Temperature being the horizontal X axis and amount of Growth being the vertical Y axis —.
As the temperature increase so too does the growth upto a certain stage usually at around 32 degrees celcius. After that the growth of your lawn does not continue to increase with the increase in temperature. As the temperature increases the growth actually decreases. Therefore it is very important to keep your lawn at a constant temperautre of below 32 degress celcius as often as possible. We now understand that the turf will be warmer than the air temperature and that once the temperature of the turf exceeds approx 32 degrees celcius the turf will begin to lose growth.
But how can we use this info in regards to your lawn? The water, that is approx 15 degrees celcius, will cool the already warm turf of approx 35 degrees celcius back down to a comfortable 25 degrees celcius. Your Lawn will look greener, be softer and more resistant to pests if you do this, even just once a week! Now I need to choose the right grass for the hot summer in south of perth in the coastal area, W. Could you give me some advise on which is the best with low maintenance.
Good point Adam, you need to find a balance between spending excessive amounts of money through your water bill and securing your investment in your lawn. You will most likely find that a lawn that is not under heat stress will not require as much water to keep it lush.
It is more about the timing of watering rather than the amount. It may take time for you to find that happy balance but we have used this principle with great success over the past 15 years not only on our installation lawns but also our farms. Tall fiscue -I did my first mow and then the next day it was 38C and the lawn now has lots of brown patches.
I kept watering it sometimes 3 times a day for the past 3 days and still there are no signs that it is improving. With tall fiscue how much watering does it need ,the lawn has been established now for 2 months. Iam worried that the brown patches are permanent damage since tall fiscue is not a creeper and wont rejunivate. If this is a seeded grass maybe overseeding may help to rejuvenate your lawn. Good reading will follow to the letter. After just completing my retaining wall. Thanks for the tips on the importance of heat on the lawn Also the tips on mowing My lawn is looking great.
Also just by way of feedback: Your advice on giving my lawan a little sprinkle in the day during our hot dry months we have experienced has done wonders for my lawn I notice my neighbours lawn has mostly died whereas mine looks good I done like to compare really, just letting you know that THAT TIP did the trick for my good-looking lawn Thanks Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much Steve. I have flushed with pride and embarrassment. After this the turf will begin to deteriorate and die. However in the height of summer this figure can drop to less than half, giving your harvested turf 12 hours or less before it has to be unrolled and laid.
The Shelf Life of a Typical Turf Roll Turf takes up to eighteen months to develop a root system which is suitable for harvest.
The Clock is Now Ticking. Prolong the Life of your Turf Rolls To ensure the best outcome for your turf it should be laid on properly prepared ground twelve to twenty-four hours after it has been harvested.
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