watering your yard?

• thavoice

  Commander of Awesome;1213925 wrote:Maybe its bc I'm not a home owner, but I just never understood the fancination with green lawn. I mean who gives a **** if you have a nice pristine lawn. Seems like its just for show and is a lot of work. If I own a home, I hope to have something different.

  I think that it does become different when you become a home owner.
  
  It wasnt until I bought a home until I really got into trying to make it look as nice as I could. Before that....really didnt care. Just something about the upkeep is enjoyable, and doing the little things kinda shows an attention to detail. I dont water it though because of the cost, but always try to keep it looking nice and plush with fertilizer, turfbuilder and such when the weather cooperates.
  
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• Con_Alma

  Commander of Awesome;1213925 wrote:Maybe its bc I'm not a home owner, but I just never understood the fancination with green lawn. I mean who gives a **** if you have a nice pristine lawn. Seems like its just for show and is a lot of work. If I own a home, I hope to have something different.

  How could you lie and say you don't care about curb appeal????
  
  
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ts1227;1213901 wrote:Don't plant grass during a drought.
  
  I agree with CoA though.

  
  Planted grass in fall and spring. You think I'm Dr. Emmit Brown?
• JTizzle

  thavoice;1213905 wrote:I usually try to water the lawn between 3-5pm during the day.
  
  I figured it is the hottest part of the day so the grass must really need some water and cooling down during that period.
  
  I also know that people lose alot of salt when it is hot and when they sweat so I plan on putting some salt down in the yard today to help it retain some of the water I am putting on it.

  lol Be careful how much salt you use, don't want the grass to get hypertension!
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  I don't have a yard.
  
  
  Hope this helps.
• sportchampps

  I give my grass Gatorade b/c plants need electrolytes
• TedSheckler

  

  thavoice;1213905 wrote:I usually try to water the lawn between 3-5pm during the day.

  
  That's the worst time to water. You're just wasting water. It evaporates before it even soaks the soil. Best time is early morning.
• JTizzle

  sportchampps;1214855 wrote:I give my grass Gatorade b/c plants need electrolytes

  Are you using G2? Dont want your yard to become obese, I hear that's abig problem in the states now. They say obesity also leads to diabetes, could get awful expensive treating your yard with insulin.
• bases_loaded

  

  sportchampps;1214855 wrote:I give my grass Gatorade b/c plants need electrolytes

  
  Reps for Idiocracy reference
• fan_from_texas

  Commander of Awesome;1213925 wrote:Maybe its bc I'm not a home owner, but I just never understood the fancination with green lawn. I mean who gives a **** if you have a nice pristine lawn. Seems like its just for show and is a lot of work. If I own a home, I hope to have something different.

  I generally feel the same way, but everyone else in our neighborhood waters, so we feel the need to keep up. You don't want to be the one person in the neighborhood with dead grass.
• sportchampps

  Reps for Idiocracy reference

  where my reps
  

  Are you using G2? Dont want your yard to become obese, I hear that's abig problem in the states now. They say obesity also leads to diabetes, could get awful expensive treating your yard with insulin.

  actually due to the recent economy ive been using powerade but your right i better switch to powerade zero
• Ironman92

  

  My yard is dry. A male grasshopper was calling in a lady hopper last night....rubbed his legs together and caught my lawn on fire.
  
  Horny hoppers suck.
• sportchampps

  Yeah I prefer bouncing beavers
• I Wear Pants

  Watering the lawn is a really silly endeavor IMO.
• bases_loaded

  

  sportchampps;1216300 wrote:where my reps
  
  
  
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  Can't on tap a talk... Will when I get home... Sorry for forgetting
• BR1986FB

  Just had a new sidewalk put in and the curb lawn, from the sidewalk to the street, had stumps that had to be ground down, mulch removed and new grass seed put in so, yes...I've at least been watering that part of the lawn.
• thavoice

  TedSheckler;1214859 wrote:That's the worst time to water. You're just wasting water. It evaporates before it even soaks the soil. Best time is early morning.

  I know dude. Your sarcasm meter musta been broke!
  
  
  Last time I put any water on the yard was at the end of May, and it rained that next day. Same thing happened this past weekend. Thursday night I watered the grass area where the dog normally is at and then it rained the next day.
• DeadliestWarrior34

  

  thavoice;1216893 wrote:I know dude. Your sarcasm meter musta been broke!
  
  
  Last time I put any water on the yard was at the end of May, and it rained that next day. Same thing happened this past weekend. Thursday night I watered the grass area where the dog normally is at and then it rained the next day.