How I Water My Lawn EXACT Time and Volume 3 Different Grass Types 

This is refreshing; one watering time does not fit all. Just out of curiosity; would you recommend timing how long it takes to apply a half inch of water throughout each season of the year? A buddy of mine was telling me that it takes longer to apply a half an inch in the Summer than it does in the Spring and Fall due to evaporation? My perspective says that watering early in the morning prevents that from happening...but I could be wrong? " But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” - John 4:14

I think a good rule of thumb is ...water in the morning.. and you should be able to tell when or where your grass is looking dry. So water it enough to not make it not look dry haha 👍

Pete looked like he was playing a human Frogger video game cutting that shop grass and dodging cars! 😂

Love you Pete! Superintendent here at Las Vegas Paiute. If you ever come to Vegas and want to golf, let me know!

We have a good MESONET here that lists the ET rates for different turfs daily so it is easy to determine how much water is needed each week

Thanks for teaching turf watering, personal watering, and most importantly, soul watering. Great overview of the different grass types.

Ubiquiti network with an access point outside, or in your shed would fix all issues. Great system for your house too. Works great for me, I have perfect wifi access at any point in my house and outside. Good luck with your research Pete!

I measured each zones output using the tuna can method....except I used Tupper ware...Ware..:).. my large zones take about 1 hour to put out 1/2 inch...I have 6 zones on 14,000 sf of lawn... should have 12 to 16 but..... I'm in northeast ohio. I have kbg and TTTF. In the heat of the summer I'm putting down 1/2" per day, 3 to days per week. I'll add a day when we hit 90 plus but those weeks are rare

Thanks for the info. Syringing is new to me. I will be doing that. Thanks Pete.

I had irrigation installed and did a renovation last fall. What I’ve learned is that irrigation simply makes having a nice yard through the summer possible. It’s only a tool. I’m constantly looking for dry spots and adjusting heads as necessary to improve the coverage. I’m able to trust my rain sensor so far where I will let it delay watering when we get rain, but that doesn’t mean I ignore the yard. I love these videos Pete. You’ve taught me so much about lawn care!

Do a mesh network for your wifi and get a water proof box to put a point out in the yard. Very simple to set up

Just wanted to say I really appreciate your advice!!! I'm glad even in today's world, you still include the word of God in your videos!!! God bless you and your family!!

Pete, I like your videos and I have learned a lot. but, where I live water is expensive and only people who are doing really well can afford to water their lawn, with that being said I know that my tall fescue is going to go dormant during the heat of the summer here in southern Illinois so the only thing we can do is keep cutting our lawns really tall and hope it will make it through until winter and the next spring.

Good video with a great message at the end. Much love Pete.

Amen Brother!! Everything is looking great!

So glad to see this. I'm always curious about the water vs. grass types

We got some good rain last week!! Mine popped back to life!!

Pete, look at the Ubiquiti airmax product line to provide a long range wireless link between your house and shed if you don't want to bury an ethernet/fiber link between the two buildings.

Love the video Pete! Great job! Really loving the channel!

Pete, you need a directional WiFi antenna aimed at your shed. That way your range extender can get the signal.

Pete. I love you, but thank God I can control the speed. 😁😃👍

Great advice all around. I follow it pretty much to the tee. I’d like your opinion on how much afternoon shade affects watering. From my experience, I don’t need to water the afternoon-shaded zones as much as those with full sun. I also need to put more water on the zones with full afternoon sun. Praise the Lord!

I couldn't explain it better myself.

Hi Pete, I find at my place I get constant sun no shade. I have fescue and a blend cool season everywhere else. I find I can’t put enough water on my lawn in the summer. I probably water up to 3 inches a week or more in some spots and I still get dry spots and heat stress. I have a pond that has a pump in it that I use for hoses and irrigation. I feel blessed to have that pond and free water. I water as much as I can. Take care.

Love the Hodge Twins Tee.

We’ve had temps pegged close to 100 for over a month and zero rainfall. Our Blue Heat is holding up well. A couple small patches of heat stress but that’s all which watering fixed.

I have found it best to water late evening/ early night because my grass stays wet all night anyways, seems to my my lawn is greener if I just water at night and let it dry up during the day. For the last 5 years of early morning watering I see better results at watering at night and far as syringing I haven't seen it make a difference. I've tried that too. But I love you Pete! God bless you man! And your family!! And jax!

My soil is like sandy, gravel, boulders, construction debris in las vegas. I have been doing 1 inch per watering and adding or subtracting days with the seasons for the past few years with ok results. This year im splitting it up so now i lm doing 2 inches in 4 days. My results for how much water is better. The lawn wants 3+ inches a week but that caused fungus in the past. I syringe some. 112 this week 8%humidity haha. My buffalo in the front looks golfcourse green right mow on 1.5 a week.

My water schedule. Nothing but rain. Only turn on sprinklers two weeks a year when I overseed.

Perfect job Pete. 👏

How are you running 80 PSI off a well? Are you using a centrifugal pump of some type? I just rigged up a Gould's J15S jet pump but have my switch set to 40/60 PSI to avoid burning the pump out.

Pete What if I was to mow my lawn early in the morning like that and water afterwards is that something you would recommend if I absolutely had to water the same day I mowed the lawn and another thing I'm in the transition zone if that makes a difference like Southeastern Pennsylvania

I have impact sprinklers that put out more water near the base and at the farthest point. I set it up to do a complete circle now I have a bullseye of green grass with brown grass between lol. Any advise?

Pete another great video! Let me know if you need help with your WiFi setup! 👍

How do you base how much water to give during the week if you don't know how much rain you're going to get on the weekend? If you're watering let's say two times a week and you give .5 in. on Tuesday and suppose to give another .5 on Friday but instead it's going to rain on Sunday and you get 2 inches, do you just restart your Tuesday and Friday waterings the Tuesday after it just rained 2 inches? Or do you kind of move your days around so I should really water on Wednesday since we just got 2 inches 3 days before and bounce around that idea depending on the forecast? TIA

Pete, you talk about a booster pump pretty often, did you have to change any plumbing to accommodate for those pressures that are created by the booster? I have 1/2” copper lines in my home and I’ve heard you talk about this booster and I hate to think about changing plumbing as well with the cost of these boosters that are on the market.

Do you use any wetting agents?

If you need to trench to run networking to your shed, I think that would be a cool winter project to watch! That’s a big “if” though haha!

Good content absolutely. Man u live on a busy street. Those cars are moving down that road.

Man I love your videos

You get mushrooms at all? If so, what do you do to avoid them? When I crank up the water, the mushrooms start taking off fast.

Thank you, been awaiting this information. On 90+ overcast days do you still syringe? And for kbg on weeks when watering 2.5" do limit to 3 watering days at .8"/day or will you spread 2.5" over 4 watering days that week? Also how do you determine when to boost to 2.5" from 2"? Are you looking at local ET data?

Great Information Pete! 👊🏼

Pete, Watching you mow at the shop looks like Frogger! You said the grass should be dry when the sun goes down, so dont water at night.. would help in preventing fungus? What about the dew every morning, does that promote fungus? And if that's the only time you can water because of work or water hours... do you water anyway?

We are going to be 105°+ this week. Some TTTF is going to be toast

I run the sprinkler during the day to cool the grass down. Syringing as you call it. I think I got that either from you or the fact that golf courses do it to their turf

Great video just in time for the brutal heat that’s been crushing us here in TN. Always good information you put out Pete. Side note, Pete who designed your website. I love your layout and the videos you display on your website. I emailed you as well in regards to it

Sorry for the unrelated question, but how do you apply large scale liquids? I'm trying out that soft soil stuff you suggested but with my 1 gallon sprayer it takes eons to soak just a small area let alone my whole yard. I tried looking around and didn't really see any faster options.

Hey Pete, I have k31 now thinking of overseeding with the gci tttf in the fall would you recommend killing off the k31 first or blend it in I’m in Columbia,sc

What's your take on this hydretain fade these day? Have you tried it? Have a blessed day

In Oklahoma is ben 90 and 100 for the weather ben so hot

If you have line of sight from the house to the shed, you should be able to put in a point to point bridge to the shed and then install a wifi antenna off that.

What booster pump do you use?

I’m surprised you need to syringe Bermuda over 90°, I thought it pretty well thrived in the heat until you got near or over 100°? I have very little experience with warm season grasses though

Which one of your mowers at home or work is your favorite?

Get a powerful outdoor directional Access point as opposed to a normal in-home access point for thew if

What does GCI stand for?

How much is the lawn mower

But yet everyday I wake up the grass is soaking wet from nighttime dew ... im 50 mins due east of you. We can't control mother nature. I have a well that give off 30 gal a min. But I only water once a week and it takes me all day on Sunday. No irrigation.

Pete theres nothing wrong with running multiple boosters. You need to have a booster in between both locations.

Head-to-head coverage will pretty much produce the same depth of water at every point on the yard compared to sprinkler systems that are not set up this way, true or false? How then does one compensate for sprinkler coverage that is off, cos I very much believe areas immediately surrounding the head will have less water compared to places where sprinklers overlap. There will be differences in watering depths across the yard, what does one do in such circumstance?

i water on M,W,F beginning at 4:15 am, i have 6 zones and run each zone 40 min, each head uses a 2gpm nozzle, have a total of 22 heads, i will leave it to the math majors to calculate the gallons used per week lol

Do you use hydretain?

Why are you syringing Bermuda? It loves the heat.

Rain? What's that? (asking for the friend in Texas. 😂)

Hi cool yard

I figure I am putting on my lawn around 8,000 gallons a month. I have a 0.1 acre with a house in the middle of it 1300 sq feet. What keeps me from watering it a lot more is the busy body city ordnance people enforcing water restrictions. They want us to only water once a week. I have the idea that as soon as the water passes through the meter its my property and I am free to do what I want with it. I never understood a company well a city ran utility not wanting to sell as much product as they can.

Pete, get you a cellular internet from your cell phone provider and just plug it in at the shed. You’ll have WiFi. Have to pay for it monthly but might save you a lot of trouble and time

Each head is probably 2 gallons a minute right?

So it sounds like the Bluegrass overall needs more water than never meter and the fescue

My bluegrass is sleeping 😴….some of the Fescue is fighting to stay alive…#ZONE9LIFE👍🏾🌴

Gci turf

Amen brother

4th!

Amen and amen 🙏

Come on Pete! Get your wifi right. Jk. I really enjoy my big green sleds, Thanks to you but I have a feeling yours may take a back seat when you get that irrigreen up and runnin. No water like the living water brother. Keep on keepin on!

First Aussie 😁

Pete

you need a wifi mesh system

I can’t believe that one of your followers can’t hook you up with A Wi-Fi fix ..

Lmao something or another irrigation heads. Yeah who sell those…I want one

4k yezir

Not having to pay for water yea no problem otherwise forget about it lol

Sounds like God a socialist. Making his son pay for your sins. What ever happened to personal responsibility.

If your house is within 328 ft of your shed, you can definitely run Ethernet. Otherwise you would need to run fiber which is $$$. I would still recommend doing the point to point link. If you want some more specific advice let me know and I’d be happy to email you and help you out!