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How do yall water your lawns?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 7/28/25 at 7:48 pm
Would love one day to have an in ground sprinkler system on automatic timers.
Until then I just have a simple sled sprinkler to start. I need about 2 to cover the front yard and maybe 3ish to cover the back yard. At least the parts we actively use.
Right now I use one in both yards until expenses die down then I will get the hoses and sleds to fill out being able to use multiple at a time.
I water 1/2” every other day with a Kelly day every fourth day. That gets me 1 1/2” per week. I subtract whatever I need to based on rainfall so I always get 1 1/2” each week. Plan to keep this up until I guess October? Then restart around march.
Until then I just have a simple sled sprinkler to start. I need about 2 to cover the front yard and maybe 3ish to cover the back yard. At least the parts we actively use.
Right now I use one in both yards until expenses die down then I will get the hoses and sleds to fill out being able to use multiple at a time.
I water 1/2” every other day with a Kelly day every fourth day. That gets me 1 1/2” per week. I subtract whatever I need to based on rainfall so I always get 1 1/2” each week. Plan to keep this up until I guess October? Then restart around march.
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Posted on 7/28/25 at 8:09 pm to ItzMe1972
Haven’t had to pull out a sprinkler yet. Two summers ago it was a full time job.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 8:25 pm to MikeD
People overwater more than under-water. Too much water leads to high potential of disease, excessive weeds, and can attract unwanted insects.
Mother Nature will eventually do the job.
Mother Nature will eventually do the job.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 8:32 pm to ItzMe1972
quote:
Mother nature this year.
For me, it's Mother Nature full time. I've said it before about lawn care-----I'm not fussed about it and it will do what it does without me fertilizing, weed killing, etc.
Just mow, edge and do my best to keep it neat.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 8:37 pm to jlovel7
I use an aqua joe for my small lawn.
I run it around 6 AM for 1-2 hours.
I run it around 6 AM for 1-2 hours.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 8:41 pm to MikeD
quote:
Two summers ago it was a full time job.
I’m gunna sound like an old man but I’ll never forget the summer of 2023… that was a fricking brutal 6-7 week stretch of 100 every day without a damn drop of rain
Posted on 7/28/25 at 9:22 pm to PenguinPubes
"that was a fricking brutal 6-7 week stretch of 100 every day without a damn drop of rain"
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Had large trees around me that started dropping major branches due to stress.
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Had large trees around me that started dropping major branches due to stress.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 10:24 pm to PenguinPubes
I learned that year that watering your cement slab is a thing.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 6:50 am to jlovel7
I installed my sprinkler system 3 years ago and it's the first time I've had a sprinkler system. I did plant zoysia where the irrigation is so if you're spending money making your grass look nice, spend the time before that to install irrigation. I tried the timer watering with the hose, and hand watering before. I ended up moving the hose and forgetting to move it back, or forgetting to turn the water off so I'd get 6" one day and forget for the next two weeks. Irrigation is a nice luxury to have.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:26 am to ItzMe1972
quote:and every year before that
Mother nature this year.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:28 am to jlovel7
If it needs watering I grab a beer, and the hose. Do the old man watering thing where I drink said beer while spraying the lawn. 
Posted on 7/29/25 at 9:58 am to jlovel7
Hose dragger here. I use a variety of sprinklers.
Backyard is on a timer every 2nd day at 5:30AM. I have newly planted Zoysia intended
Front yard I yank the hoses and water each spot once or twice a week for an hour before the sun comes up. Depending on the rain fall expected.
Backyard is on a timer every 2nd day at 5:30AM. I have newly planted Zoysia intended
Front yard I yank the hoses and water each spot once or twice a week for an hour before the sun comes up. Depending on the rain fall expected.
This post was edited on 7/29/25 at 9:58 am
Posted on 7/29/25 at 10:01 am to jlovel7
Usually don't water regardless and this year, it's been when can I cut the lawn between days of rain?
Posted on 7/29/25 at 5:41 pm to jlovel7
racchio and pond water 
the damn system has literally run about 3x all year so far
its finally drying up here but the rain-intelligence meant it would just tell me "nope, not watering today" every day I wake up.
the damn system has literally run about 3x all year so far
its finally drying up here but the rain-intelligence meant it would just tell me "nope, not watering today" every day I wake up.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 5:46 pm to PenguinPubes
We had just finished our pool and pool house build and had a landscaping company put in 15k worth of sod and landscaping. I should've spent some of that on an irrigation system. But like you said, for 6-7 wks, it took all I had to keep everything alive.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 5:54 pm to jlovel7
Had irrigation system in last 2 homes.
Best thjngg ever… u til they start breaking….
Those
Were subdivisions houses.
Didn’t put when I moved in new house .. on 2 acres so thought it was too much
Best thjngg ever… u til they start breaking….
Those
Were subdivisions houses.
Didn’t put when I moved in new house .. on 2 acres so thought it was too much
Posted on 7/30/25 at 2:29 am to ItzMe1972
quote:
Mother nature this yea
And every year
Posted on 8/3/25 at 6:56 am to commode
quote:
If it needs watering I grab a beer, and the hose. Do the old man watering thing where I drink said beer while spraying the lawn.
Yep.
Posted on 8/4/25 at 8:57 am to jlovel7
I have a hose with a sprayer that will shoot 20f or so.
When I have to pee I go out back and water the yard while going.
I learned this from my father
When I have to pee I go out back and water the yard while going.
I learned this from my father
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