Last Updated on January 30, 2024 by Brian Beck
Picture this: it’s the middle of July, it’s 95° out and your irrigation system isn’t working in your lawn is getting tortured. Most people in the situation began to panic because they are under the assumption that the lawn can die suddenly, you know like by the weekend. While there is cause for concern it has been my experience despite the circumstance there is absolutely no reason for alarm. That might sound counterintuitive and perhaps maybe callous or dismissive but let me explain my perspective. Lawns do not change overnight or by the end of the week or by the end of the month. While they can experience several abnormalities that might make them less than aesthetically pleasing, the reality is that most change in the lawn, let’s call that macro change, occurs very slowly over many months. While I continuously stress the need for a properly hydrated soil the truth is that under extreme circumstances grass is actually pretty resilient and will take a beating when necessary. Most lawns don’t collapse from a singular action but rather a combination of serial method of activity. Lawns die because people neglect them over many months if not several years. When they have had enough they have had enough you will know it because you will lose sections of your lawn quickly and episodes of winter kill. The mindset that you should adopt is to address the fundamentals and routinely adhere to them which is increasingly easy when you have a healthy soil which will serve as a formidable foundation for healthy turf. So don’t get distressed when you have a problem, take more than one event to kill a lawn. Grass is lot tougher than you think.
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