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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I agree, but you can try a shorter time and see if it has a negative effect on your lawn. I cut back my watering from 20 minutes to 5 minutes and I didn't notice any effect. Now, I am considering turning the whole system off. I have a friend who doesn't even have a sprinkler system and their grass looks good.
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We don't have a sprinkler system. I believe that a lot of people hope to bring their soft, beautiful northern low maintenance lawns down to Florida with them. To try and recreate their northern lawn effect they overwater and over-fertilize. Then the fertilizer runs off into the residential lakes and causes problems of too much nutrients. It is better to accept that their lawns will have some brown spots during the winter and not hope for perfection.
One solution for too much water use is to plant Florida-friendly trees and have stone and wall rings around them. After the trees mature they will need zero water - and neither do the stones. Solar lights shining up the trees make for a more attractive yard than a solid grass yard and cuts down on water, fertilizer, and lawn mowing area. Those yards are less boring!