Alright Booker,
and Rick you know Booker, our lawn guy here.
- I think for a few years.
- A long time ago, we go way back.
- Yeah that's for sure.
- Yeah way back.
- So let's talk a little bit about summer lawn watering.
- That's very good, we need that.
- And we actually have some questions for you today.
- Okay.
- And we'll start with the first one.
When is the best time to water your lawn?
- Well the ideal time and the best time,
probably early in the morning time.
A lot of folks go out in
the early morning time and water they lawn.
Probably some time around three or four,
or five like in the morning.
The earliest 'til seven.
You go out there and put your water hose down
where you want to water it.
And then early that morning you get 'em cut it on
while you go walkin' or joggin' or something.
And then you make sure that you have half
where you wanna get all your other plants too now.
Because a lot of times when you get
into our flower bed, it doesn't cause problems.
But early in the morning time
is ideal time to water your lawn.
- Okay, so what happens if you water too late though?
- A lot of times you water too late,
it don't have time to dry off.
And a lot of time we have diseases get on our lawn.
People wanna know, why there's diseases on my lawn?
They probably water in the, late in the evening time
or they water in the middle of the daytime
and a lot of time in the middle of the day
a lot of that water not gettin' down to the plant.
So you need to, early morning to an ideal time
because you get more water to the lawn.
- Okay, alright, here's a common question.
How much water does your lawn need at any given time?
- Well most times you need about one inch of water a week.
- (Chris) Okay, one inch a week?
- One inch a week.
You wanna make sure you givin' it all at one time.
A lot of times I see folks go out there in the morning time,
or the evening time and get a little water hose
and just start doing it for about 5 or 10 minutes.
And that really doing your lawn more harm than anything else,
'cause you want that water to soak
down into the soil, probably about one inch.
One inch of good water a week.
Now you have sandy soil,
it might need a little more than that
'cause the sandy soil might drain a little faster
and it cause it to dry faster.
So you've mostly got clay soil here
and you're gonna hold that moisture long time in there
so by one inch of water we should be good.
- Okay, does it matter whether it's a warm season grass
or a cool season grass?
Like whether it's Bermuda, Zoysia or Fescue?
- Mostly what we want our grass,
mostly the warm season grass.
'Cause a lot of time your cool season grass,
they get enough water, but on a shade tree or something,
in the summertime, you might wanna
give it a little more water.
It not doin' a whole lot of growth doing that
but it stands still under that shade tree,
the roots are pullin' that water away from your lawn,
and you give a little more water
during the summertime when it real hot.
But in the wintertime,
you don't need to water your cool season grass a whole lot.
- Okay, alright here's our next question.
So what happens if your lawn gets too much water?
- The two things that happen if you get too much water,
one of the things
that you can cause disease to probably get on there.
And by an inch of water a week and sometimes if you got
a sprinkler system and it come on,
it should have a water gauge on there.
Because if it rain, you don't want it to come on.
So some people have it set in a way,
if it rain it still come on.
They get that lawn too much water.
And also givin' it too much water,
you won't do the roots, if sometime
it just kinda get gradual kinda dormant dry.
It force them roots down into the ground.
If not, you keep gettin' all that water all time,
they stand really close to the top
if they got a lot of moisture right there.
But sometimes you let it go dry for a while
and it force those roots to go down into the ground.
And do that, and so.
- So the deeper the roots go, for the most part.
- The tougher your grass gonna be.
- Right.
- See I don't water my grass.
I used to water my lawn
but I let it, nice, well established.
And now durin' the summertime,
those roots goin' down into the ground,
lookin' for water.
That's why you don't wanna shallow water your grass,
for 'bout two or three minutes.
The roots gonna come to the top of the soil
and the soil, and the heat can kill that grass.
If I'm seein' neighbors that're waterin' their lawn
early in the, like that, and they think I know.
That they begin to turn brown.
Because shallow roots, hot sun, scorch their roots up.
- You got that Rick?
- Makes sense.
- Alright, so here's our next question for you.
How can I tell if my lawn has one inch of water on it?
- We get that call all day.
I cannot tell they got the rain,
I cannot tell I've only got one inch of water there.
A lot tell ya, look, they have a can,
the thing you put out there on your lawn
and the sprinkler system.
And put them probably about both sides of it,
depending on what sprinklers you have.
And get you a time to put on there.
And watch it for the first time to see how long,
and mark that can, mark an inch on that can.
And mark that can, when you get an inch of water in there,
you would note then, get an inch.
Then you know how long it took for ya to get that inch.
If it took 30 minutes or a hour or whatever.
'Cause some sprinklers put out more water
than other sprinklers.
So y'all depend on the count
from the sprinkler you have, how long it take
to get that one inch of water in there.
But yeah, you get you some cans to put out there,
whatever water gauge or whatever.
Try to measure that one inch of water in there.
- Okay, what about using a moisture meter?
- A lotta people do that.
That'd be good to tell when your lawn do need water.
So you wanna do that check that in there.
So, yeah, that'd be really good.
'Cause you don't wanna get that water time,
like I said a few minutes ago,
make sure you have your sprinkler system
set for on your flower bed.
'Cause a lot of time we see a lot of flower beds
dead because they're gettin' too much water.
It's got a lotta moisture in the flower bed,
holdin' a lot of moisture in there.
And they begin to rot into old plants there.
- Okay, and then one of the points
that you made earlier, and Rick,
you probably can attest to this as well,
yeah, make sure you have a rain sensor.
- (Rick and Booker) Oh Yeah.
- On your irrigation system
because we've all seen 'em Right?
- Irrigation's runnin' in the rainstorm.
- Come on Folks.
- I ain't even seen it rain yet,
and their lawn beginnin' to get water.
- Uh huh.
- And that's not good.
- Yeah, it's not good.
It's gonna be too much water.
So you talked about some of the sprinklers
that're out there.
What are some of the better kinds though?
The oscillating kind, or...
- It all depend how much lawn you have.
A lot of times, the lawn not made even.
And a lot of time, you wanna use the kind
that'll fit in your lawn.
But you don't wanna get the water out on the sidewalk,
and the water all out on your house and everything.
You want the one that fit into your lawn.
But the oscillating kind is real good
if you're gonna put some new seeds down
because it won't wash the seeds away.
It won't pack 'em down into the soil.
So when they goin' over and over again,
oscillatin' kind, that'd be really good
for the new seeds and have new sod you put down in there.
That be the best kind to use.
But try to watch your lawn,
try to put the sprinkler somewhere
that the water's gettin' onto the grass.
You don't wanna water the sidewalk
and all that down there, you done wastin' water
and also wastin' money and time.
- And if you do have an irrigation system,
you need to test it right?
To make sure it's puttin' out enough water
- Yeah.
Most people have an irrigation system,
they have it on the same zone.
You may have one zone come on the same time of the year,
same time of the day, and some the other time.
Probably you got a shade tree
that might be in the zone,
you might have it come on for 15, 20 minutes.
Or out in the heat in hot sun,
it might come on longer to get that one inch
of water in there.
So you wanna be sure you get an inch of water in there.
And you don't need to come on every day.
'Cause sometimes, test your soil
to make sure it need water before you do that.
Sometimes an inch of water might not be
an inch of water for that week.
There's some rain in there, and all that,
you might get that through rain water.
So test that in there.
Test your sprinkler system in there
and have it come on and for the zone
that you have it come on at a certain time.
- Okay, so another question for you.
How often do I need to water a newly sodded
or seeded lawn?
- One of the thing about that,
now that's a little mistake in there.
If we have, I like to, if it's really hot in the summertime,
I like to, if we're puttin' sod down,
I'm gonna put that sod down on a really dry, hot soil.
I might wanna water it just a day or two before
just to water the soil, get it kinda moisture like.
But then lay my sod, and keep it real moist
until it begins to catch root.
If you go out there and catch that sod
and pull on it a little bit,
and see how it begin to catch root in there,
you know then it done caught root.
And also for the seeds in your lawn,
you need to make sure that you keep your moisture
until you start germinatin'.
Now you don't wanna keep that wet, wet, wet,
but a lot of time you just wanna keep it kinda moist,
like early in the mornin' time.
Keep it kinda moist until those seeds germinate.
And on a bag of seed, it'll tell you
how many days it should take for that seed to germinate.
But Moody grass seed might take 7 to 10 days.
Your Zoysia grass obviously take a little longer,
but just know how long it should take
for that seed to germinate.
And you can't use some old seeds.
Put 'em in and they just sittin' there,
you wonder why these seeds not germinate.
And another thing, is when do you plant those seeds?
You know, a lot of time, people in the winter
plant those seeds, but Moody grass seed,
Zoysia seed, in May, probably the middle of May.
When the soil temperature get around 70 degrees,
not the air temperature, but the soil temperature
get around in there, so then.
But keep that soil moist, not over watered.
Keep it moist, it begin to germinate.
- 'Cause for the most part,
seeds start to germinate when they take in water.
- Correct.
- You give 'em water, they grow some roots
and things like that.
- Get moisture in there.
- Alright, well we really appreciate that information.
- Well thank you.
- From our lawn guy here!
(laughs)
- It's great.
- Alright, thank you much.
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