Just to put the lawn thing in context, I hate lawns...
However... Have this neighbour who just can’t keep his opinion to himself. I was watering the lawn with a watering can in the middle of the day when we first moved here and bugalugs wanders over and starts delivering a sermon about how I’m wasting water... I should just stop... look over yonder to be amazed as his lawn is beautiful and he only ever waters in the morning.... He basically uses one of those fertiliser dispensers you walk with and rains down a ton of Westland after cut and drowns his lawn daily in the morning during the summer.
I just smile, nod in agreement, give off an ‘okay then...’ and he wanders off back to smug-ville.
Anyway... long story short the hot weather rolls in and every lawn on this street turns yellow and our’s doesn’t. Gave him something to think about I guess.
Only thing I do is water in the middle of the day whilst the grass is uptaking with some rainwater and micros in it. Usually before any hot spell or every forty days during the summer. The happy lawn is a bi-product, the fact that bugalugs is gonna have to be humble, stop lecturing people and ask someone else a question for once if he wants to know ‘the secret’ is the real prize.
He uses a £500 mower and I use a crappy second hand rusted manual mower as well which must blow his mind 😂
In a nutshell I’m not a big enough man to let it go, so the lawn gets micro rain every month or so during the summer now.
Established lawns shouldn’t really need feeding but some iron and other micros as a foliar feed help with drought tolerance, unless you have a more temperate grass species that goes dormant in the heat anyway regardless. Just like in tanks too much phosphate can mess with iron uptake on your lawn and quite frankly, I think lawn feeds are way too aggressive with N-P-K and just cause more mowing, not healthy grass.
I like lawns with clover mixed in, that stuff never drys out, is green all year and requires no maintenance. Anyhow, with successive years the weeds don’t get a look in anymore and the kids trampling the grass has toughened it up and encouraged good sideways spreading, no roller required. So we’re down to mowing once in a while as grass doesn’t grow too quickly and a spray once in a while with no weeding - easy lawn life.
However... Have this neighbour who just can’t keep his opinion to himself. I was watering the lawn with a watering can in the middle of the day when we first moved here and bugalugs wanders over and starts delivering a sermon about how I’m wasting water... I should just stop... look over yonder to be amazed as his lawn is beautiful and he only ever waters in the morning.... He basically uses one of those fertiliser dispensers you walk with and rains down a ton of Westland after cut and drowns his lawn daily in the morning during the summer.
I just smile, nod in agreement, give off an ‘okay then...’ and he wanders off back to smug-ville.
Anyway... long story short the hot weather rolls in and every lawn on this street turns yellow and our’s doesn’t. Gave him something to think about I guess.
Only thing I do is water in the middle of the day whilst the grass is uptaking with some rainwater and micros in it. Usually before any hot spell or every forty days during the summer. The happy lawn is a bi-product, the fact that bugalugs is gonna have to be humble, stop lecturing people and ask someone else a question for once if he wants to know ‘the secret’ is the real prize.
He uses a £500 mower and I use a crappy second hand rusted manual mower as well which must blow his mind 😂
In a nutshell I’m not a big enough man to let it go, so the lawn gets micro rain every month or so during the summer now.
Established lawns shouldn’t really need feeding but some iron and other micros as a foliar feed help with drought tolerance, unless you have a more temperate grass species that goes dormant in the heat anyway regardless. Just like in tanks too much phosphate can mess with iron uptake on your lawn and quite frankly, I think lawn feeds are way too aggressive with N-P-K and just cause more mowing, not healthy grass.
I like lawns with clover mixed in, that stuff never drys out, is green all year and requires no maintenance. Anyhow, with successive years the weeds don’t get a look in anymore and the kids trampling the grass has toughened it up and encouraged good sideways spreading, no roller required. So we’re down to mowing once in a while as grass doesn’t grow too quickly and a spray once in a while with no weeding - easy lawn life.
