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Originally Posted by Pondboy
St Augustine grass needs at least 1” of water per week. You really need to put cups out in your lawn to measure irrigation.
I’m thinking you misread the instructions from the Villages, it’s twice per week, not once. (i.e, your watering days are Tuesdays and Fridays). St Augustine can’t go that long without water. Sometimes it stresses out (grass blades folded in half) and needs water more than twice per week.
7 AM is a bit late to start watering. The sticker (instructions) tell me (at my house over in Fenney) that I can start watering at 4 AM. The later you start watering, the more water will be lost to evaporation. Best not to water after sunset as all that moisture sitting on grass blades will cause fungal growth.
Without knowing your lawn size and you being away, I’d recommend at least a 30 minute run on each zone with two runs on each zone per your allowed watering day (Tue and Fri). This way the total lawn zones will get watered for 60 minutes. I recommend breaking up your watering so that the water has time to permeate into the soil/roots vs running into the gutter.
That’s a good start, measure your irrigation at your earliest opportunity. Hopefully your Ranchio will measure rainfall and you won’t drown the grass.
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I don't think I misread. While it says allowable days are Tuesday and Friday, the frequency shows 1 day per week. See below. I won't be able to measure until July when I'm there.
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Originally Posted by metoo21
If you have the Rachio, why aren't you using Flex Daily so that Rachio can control the watering?
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I'll check into that. I was assuming the sticker on my box was a rule or restriction of some sort so I didn't allow the Rachio to do anything except the schedule I set.
ETA: I just set up the Flex Daily. Will see how it goes. Thanks for the tip. I hadn't really looked at that before.