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Old 04-05-2013, 12:34 PM
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Default Watering the lawn ? (again!!)

I did a search of the forum for prior threads on the subject and have read the differing water company sites. However I would still like to hear what others experience regarding watering the lawn once VS twice per week. I am inspired to ask as our lawn fertilizing company is recommending going back to twice per week at 40 minutes per station.

For the "winter" months I do once per week at 25 minutes per station with very acceptable results in the lawn and landscape.

I do recall that in past years even at twice per week it is nigh unto almost impossible to stay ahead of the heat and hot weather.

So the question is water twice per week at 40 minutes in the summer or something else? What do you do when the weather warms up and do you start this early?

I read somewhere that trying to keep a lawn here in FL that looks like the ones we had up North does not compute.....in FL we have to keep in mind we are trying to grow a lush lawn on a sand dune!!!!!!

btk