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Guide to Lawn Watering
Just enough... Not too much!
Fresh water is a precious and limited resource.
Plants "breathe" and "drink" through specialized "feeder roots" which grow only in the top 6 to 12 inches of soil and only in spaces between the soil particles. Keeping those soil spaces filled with water hurts a plant because it cannot "breathe."
Plants will tell you when they need to be watered. Grass will roll its leaves, or won't straighten back up after you have walked across the lawn so that you leave obvious footprints. Other plants will not stand up as straight, or their leaves will be a little more floppy than usual.
A kitchen timer will be a great tool to help you remember to turn the water off!
Rain gauges or empty straight-sided cans will measure the water so that you put 1-inch per week on the lawn.
A rain sensor keeps the irrigation system from coming on in the rain or after ½ inch or more rain has fallen. Rain sensors save enough on the water bill to pay for themselves in the first season of use. See the Water and Sewer Department for more information on irrigation systems.
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