When Should You Water Your Lawn?

 Betty in Jackson, ”I would like to ask what is the best time to water an established lawn, morning, noon, or night?”

 In a perfect world, morning. The reason I say morning is because when you water in the evening hours, especially a lawn, you’re generally using a sprinkler. The foliage is going to be wet. Then that foliage lays wet all night long until the next morning when it finally dries out and the sun comes up. We’ve talked about red thread fungus, rust fungus in the yard. That’s on grass that’s excessively wet.

So watering in the morning, give it a really good drink. Get the soil wet. The roots will chase the moisture down deeper in the soil and then it dries out within a few hours of the watering. In a perfect world for lawns, early morning is the best.

If you have a sprinkler system, turn it on at 5 a.m. and let it run for two hours on the lawn, you’d be in good shape? You would be in much better shape than running it for the same timeframe in the evening. So always, if you can, water early mornings. That’s when it’s going to be the most beneficial.

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