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Originally Posted by CFrance
This is what we used to do at Lake Michigan, where everything is built on sand. The water drains right through into the sand and nothing is retained, so more frequent watering for shorter periods is the way to go. I plan to try this, because our lawn looks like the Sahara Desert with two days per week.
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The soil? our homes are on is sandy clay or clayey sand.
Many people have a professional? who applies liquid fertilizer.
To be a liquid, it is of course water soluble. It is like putting miragrow on a plant-it lasts only two weeks.
You need to improve your soil-ADD ORGANIC MATTER.
A LOT OF ORGANIC MATTER-A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
You want to use LESS fertilizer. Putting down more fertilizer forces the lawn to grow and thus need more water.
You should take a shovel and remove a plug out of your lawn. You will see what YOU have. Most likely yu have half an inch of dark soil that came with the sod that was installed over the sandy clay-quick easy done. Unfortunately your grass has no reason to send roots into the sandy clay so it does not. With PROPER soil preparation your lawn grass roots should be down 6 to 8 inches.
The good news. Grass goes dormant if there is little water.
It will come back to life now that we are entering our rainy
season.