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Deep lawn watering

skidiver
17 years ago

Hi Trey,

Thanks for helping out here. I'd like to try an infrequent, deep watering schedule to promote root growth and inhibit weeds, and have a few questions. I'm in the metro Boston area, zone 6. I mow high (3-3 1/2 inches), and use an all-organic lawn care program, with automatic sprinklers. The lawn has a mixture of sun and shade. Here are my questions:

1. Is 1" of water, once a week the correct amount?

2. Whatever the correct amount, is it better to put it all down at once, or in two consecutive doses? My thought is that two consecutive doses might help minimize runoff and make more effective and efficient use of the water.

What I was thinking about is running a program to put down 1/2 of the total water needed across all four zones in our yard, but running it twice consecutively (so that when zone 4 is done, zone 1 starts again, and so on).

Is this a good idea, or is it better to just put it all down at once, in a single dose?

The watering time would most likely be early in the morning, roughly 5-7am

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