Please Turn Down the Water

We are settling in to our cool, damp days of winter here in the Central Valley. This means that plants will not require much if any supplemental watering from our irrigation system. Our demand for water is in the 5-10% range of what is needed to hydrate our lawns and other plantings in the peak summer months. With a normal rain shower here and there the sprinklers could even be turned off until February or March. The exceptions may be the newly planted annuals, and even they won’t need much water in winter months.

Water is precious and we certainly don’t need to waste it. Too much water can increase disease incidence on the lawn and accelerate root rots in trees and shrubs. Saturated lawns also get rutted up with heavy mowers crossing it. Weeds, of course, will love the abundance of water. A bermudagrass lawn will certainly do fine with no irrigation until you water in your preemergent crabgrass control products in February.

Here is the bottom line. Only water as needed. If you are willing to turn off your water, do so and then watch for dry spots following long periods of no rain and above normal temperatures.  If you don’t do that, then please reduce your water to one day a week and cut that to 50% or less than normal.

Let’s pray for a wet winter and tons of snow in the mountains. 

For more information about watering or lawns, contact Weed Man at 266-1624 or visit our website at Fresno.WeedManUSA.com.

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