@@chrisryan8863 if it’s dormant its not growing. A dormant lawn happens when temps drop and the lawn goes dormant to protect itself. If you don’t water your lawn and there’s no rain, you will probably still get some growth but if not watered it will die. There’s a whole big explanation here. Briefly saying, also in high heat your lawn can go “ dormant “ but if not watered will die, so a lawn that looks dead because of heat should still be watered at least 1/2 inch of water per week so that if does not die completely. Great question, I may have to do a video on the subject. Thanks for joining us here on My Green Lawn! Much appreciated my friend
Great video! Very helpful. Question for you - Normally I see 1 inch a week (Two 1/2 inch watering sessions) being used as a good watering amount to do. Would watering 1/2 inch every day be too much water when bringing the grass out of dormancy? I'm in the Midwest and it has been dry as a bone for two weeks here.
I would water every day if you can, for about 7 days to help bring the lawn out of dormancy. Its harder to bring a lawn out of dormancy then it is to keep it from going dormant. Depends on your area, but I would be watering mine every day. If your soil is real hard and not taking on water, watch for water run off, in that case, just water a little bit, wait for the water to be absorb, then water some more. I hope that helps
I remember when I was a kid, my Dad had green green grass. No fertilizing, no watering. Now I have to water like crazy, and fertilize. Thanks CHEMTRAILS
Hey MN MAN @ My Green Lawn! So glad I found you on You Tube! My lawn is totally fried out front. It's so bad I don't know if it can be saved. Do you do home consultations? I'm in St. Louis Park. Odd Even Water restrictions here. I have a lawn care service coming out soon, I hope, to aerate and over seed. I'm hoping that will help. I will try your watering method but not sure how much might be needed. Any advice on how much watering it might take? Can you suggest how much? Like 2 hours every other day or more? Please advise. Thanks!
Hello Im sorry about your lawn,. First of all we do not service the St Louis Park area at this time, maybe some day. So have you been watering during the watering ban? and watering at least 1/2 inch (I would prefer an inch in hotter temps) a week? How long it takes you to get a 1/2 inch a week down is dependent on your sprinkler system, you can do the tuna can test. Put a few cans out, run your sprinkler for say 10 minutes, if in that ten minutes you have an 1/8th of an inch then it would take you 40 minutes to get 1/2 inch of water down a week. Also if you are cutting your lawn to short during HOT periods or at anytime, (when I say short I mean under 3 inches - I'm assuming you have turn type tall fescue). I would like to see 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 inches in hot periods and say 3 to 3 1/4 for normal periods. I normally cut at 3 1/4 inches, during the summer drought I was cutting at 3 3/4 inches but letting my lawn grow 4 inches sometimes longer, but remember not to take more then a 3rd of the blade off of your lawn in 1 mowing. Try and stress your lawn the least amount you can. Also not just any lawn care service is going to be able to assist you with the issues your having, wish I was able to assist in person. Hopefully you have subscribed to the channel and watch our videos, I can try and help you thru the channel, good luck and I hope all turns out well. Feel free to reach out to me. Frank
Not sure where you’re located but I’m in Rogers. Let me know if you’re interested in helping with a couple problem areas for content. Just moved in and had some bad/low heads. Been watering with no green up. And now with the water restrictions idk what to do. Can’t tell if the grass is dead or what.
@@bigswiglawns just moved in a couple months ago. The heat and drought we’ve had was a rough situation to walk into with no history of the lawn . Planning to aerate we a few weeks and hopefully overseed. Water restrictions are going to make this tricky
@@TJP2010555 I’m literally in the same situation as you, and I’m also here in Minnesota. Going to be aerating here in a few weeks and will also be over seeding. Have never done anything like this before so it will all be a learning experience for me, Good luck! and let me know how it goes 😉
My lawn is two years old and I was just starting to see the fruits of my labor, when our area came under water restrictions due to drought (Houston suburb). The local weather 'experts' are saying not to expect an end to the heat and drought anytime soon. So my question is, is there anything I should be doing to my lawn for the next few months or so, or is it best just to leave it alone? Thanks
There’s a soil water management product called Hydretain, purchase that and get it down. Also you can get your self some sea kelp and humic and when you fertilize try and find a high K number that’s the last number you see on the fertilizer analysis. Of course this is always better if you can get this stuff down before the heat stress that would be better. Be sure to hand water your heat spots, most areas allow hand watering but it depends on your restrictions. If your going to just let it brown up and go dormant, get at least 1/2 inch of water down per week to keep the roots alive. Thank you you for your comments and suppose
@@MrLarrybyrne your welcome I hope that helps I have other heat stress videos you can watch. I forgot to mention the Hydretain will allow you to water less. I have a video on that product on my channel also. Feel free to ask additional questions if you need to I will help you any way I can
