Our lawn is newer and goes from green to brown to black depending on how much water it gets from us or rain. In newer areas the sod was put down with no topsoil, just sand and when walked on has dire effects if you don't keep after it especially in all the high temperatures. We wAter an extra day and our penalized heavily and still if no rain. It goes brown then black. Two days with minimum amounts are not enough as it almost went beyond recovery a few times. Lawncare people happily quoted $600 to $800 to replace the sod at times. We fertilized and watered more and it finally came back. Not perfect but a green brown instead of a black, brown with small patches of green. It has been an unwelcome challenge and to be penalized for adding a little more water really irritates us ESP when we see the sprinklers on common areas running during the day on golf courses when most of the water will evaporate. We are all stone at the back and most of one side but won't do more stone as we don't like the desert look. Come on management, give us a little more water time without high charges.
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