Katie asked:
I am trying to find information about watering your lawn. I have found information about watering your lawn at night and such. But cannot find anything about how much water your need to water your lawn in the middle of the day and how much water is wasted.
The project that I am working on is trying to BAN watering your lawn in the middle of the day because it wastes water.
If you have any information about watering your lawn or any interesting facts please let me know.
This is for a Student Congress Resolution for school.
I dont try to save the rain forest on my days off
Tags:lawn,Lawns,watering
An easy test would be to measure the amount of water that actually lands on the grass, over the same watering period, in the middle of the day and after dark, with the pressure the same -using a water gage on the lawn, in the same spot.
It’s not good to water your lawn in the middle of the day because you can burn your lawn!! But trying to get it banned…what exactly do u do during the day??
Think this may be what you are looking for:
“Watering before 9:00 AM reduces evaporation and scorching of leaves from the sun. Watering during middle of the day can waste up to 65% of the water through evaporation. Water on calm days to prevent wind drift and evaporation.”
Hope that helps!
isn’t watering your grass at any time during the day a waste of water? i don’t understand how it is more of a waste during the middle of the day than it is in the morning or evening. of course all these people who put all the chemicals on their lawns then over water them and let the sprinklers run all day even when it rains, washes all those chemicals into our drinking water. why don’t you try and ban that instead.
1/4 of inch of water in the morning is all your grass needs. watering in mid day you will need a lot more because it is hot out and you will burn the grass. If you water at night the grass is suspetiable to diseases. My mother is a horticulturist, I never water anything after 8am. That means during them darn hot summer months I am up at 5 am. I have a lot of plants
. The grass I don’t really worry about if I did my bill would be $1,000 a month. Good luck with your research.