Last Updated on November 1, 2022 by Brian Beck
In our continuing rant on how people are destroying their lawns by following conventional wisdom we want to add yet another bit of trivia that you were not aware of. Most people have turned their irrigation off for obvious reasons however we have developed a way to extend the irrigation out until mid-December to avoid what I call the October surprise (you find out what the surprise is next May). You can read about that in one of our other Blogs, “Weather Bender, Get out of the Stress Cycle”. The point here is that people set their lawns up for failure every year without realizing what they are doing. To add insult to injury, when the soil temperature gets to be in between 55-65° the grass slows down top growth and turns that energy down to the roots. There is quite a bit of root development going on right now if there is proper hydration. People don’t see this because it is a half foot down in the soil and no one talks about it and most people give up on watering this time of year not knowing what they are missing. If you invest in your lawn right now it will pay dividends in the spring. The main focus should be the soil and it’s health and then the proper hydration. These go hand in hand and ignoring these causes people a LOT of money year after year. Call us if you are not aware of our biological system. It is solving problems that we were not able to address before when we were using synthetics. Please water, you will thank me later…