Before you dive into summer, have a look at our summer irrigation tips for North Texas. These will ensure that your lawn stays green and nourished throughout the season. We understand that it can be easy to forget about your irrigation system, or just expect it to “do its thing” in the background. But you can’t afford to forget about irrigation.
These 3 summer irrigation tips will get you through the summer with a lush lawn for all those relaxing days spent by the pool.
Timing is Everything
It is best to have your irrigation on to water your lawn in the early morning or late afternoon. If you water the hot soil in the midday sun, the water will quickly evaporate, leaving your plants dry and deprived. We recommend that you use your irrigation system between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Quantity Control
Be careful of how much your home irrigation system is operating. Those of us in North Texas usually find that we need to water our lawns less when we experience those rainy summer days. Overwatering can be as harmful, if not worse, as underwatering. Be Waterwise!
Your watering schedule needs to change throughout the year according to the different amounts of rainfall. An automatic irrigation system can monitor soil moisture to determine whether the system needs to be automatically switched on. You want to make sure that your irrigation system is watering the right amount across your lawn. As a rule of thumb, we suggest irrigating twice a week. If it has been a very rainy week, you might be able to cut this down to one.
Get Professional Advice
The change of season necessitates the change of your irrigation system schedule. First Response Lawn Care can advise you with the planning and operation of your irrigation to ensure that it is suited to the climate and your lawn. If you neglect to modify the schedule, you risk watering too much, or not enough. Either way, you could cause extensive damage to your lawn by skipping this simple step.
As well as guiding you with the schedule and frequency of your irrigation system, we can assist you with its positioning and setup. Sometimes a sprinkler head needs to be adjusted to evenly water the lawn. Or perhaps your shaded patch of the lawn does not need as much water as the other patch that sits under the sun all day.
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