Last Updated on August 29, 2023 by ILGM Ninjas
If you have been reading my blogs you will sense an undertow of frustration. That frustration is the result of the self destructive cycle that most lawns are on. Let me paint a picture. You wake up one day in late April and decide that it is “time to get the lawn going”. Mistake number one. You then pound it with a lot of synthetic chemicals. Mistake number two. You then decide to water it ten minutes a day, twice a day even, 7 days a week. Mistake number three. The lawn faces summer heat, becomes stressed, goes into dormancy, does not get watered during the winter and several months you get a big case of winter kill, repair it, believe all of this is normal and begin the cycle one more time for the following year. Doesn’t sound very smart does it? Not to mention extremely wasteful.
Let me paint a different scenario. You wake up one day in late March and notice that your lawn is beginning to green up. It hasn’t rained in a week and it is above 40° so you water the next weekend because it needs it. You water deeply so that the water gets about 6″ down into the soil. The 1st of April comes and your lawn greens up without any fertilization, weird, but right on! It is still below 65° during the day but the lawn looks great. Still too early to turn the irrigation on but you water as needed until the times comes. You don’t need all of that nitrogen to make the lawn green because it already is, drawing upon energy stored in the roots so you work on your carbon level as this is energy for the microbes that you have just learned about and the carbon allows the soil to hold much more water. It is mid June and your lawn looks almost the same as it did 6 weeks ago. You then apply a full dose of biology and nutrition, everything that the lawn needs, macro and micro elements that help the plant grow and repair itself as well as deal with stress and the elements. The plant knows what to do and the microbes that are helping to prevent disease and get resources into the plant know as well. Sumer comes and goes, you are watering once or twice per week, deeply and the lawn still looks great. You utilize a freeze prevention device to extend the watering into the pre-dormant period that reaches its completion around mid December. This is where the roots get developed and hydration is very important. The next two months are very critical as they are the driest months out of the entire year. You keep your lawn hydrated all winter long, watering a few times per month as conditions allow. You have just escaped the traditional rat race of lawn care and you have saved time and money doing it. Call us we can help…