The1and only;3386974; said:
No way water at 1pm is killing your lawn. every drop of water on your grass is like a magnifying glass intensifying the suns rays and burning your grass.
On a second note you have to time it right and go through some growing pains but lawns even in Az only need to be watered twice a week in summer and once a week in winter times, so you are way over watering your lawn at the moment causing the roots to not grow as deep and it being less tolorante of drought.
On another note if you really want to save on water consumption you should put in a grey water systm for watering your lawn and plumb your tanks to that. combined with a drip system on your tanks and you would be flying high in the conservation department.
never heard of midday watering killing a lawn, the evap issue makes sense, but the sun being maginfied through the droplets doesn't based on the waters hang time, it's practically zero. after that it's on the ground and in the soil.
and I've never seen a successful lawn in AZ that didn't water daily.
with the above system I could go down to a single time a day, most likely in the evening and that would take care of the lawn nicely.
now it seems you're also unfamiliar with AZ's grass system. We do not have a single year round grass. We have bermuda in the summer and rye in the winter. Therefore there's no point in worrying about the drought hardiness of grass, as we kill off the bermuda in fall to make way for the winter rye and vice versa in spring. some have tried unsuccessfully to grow a fescue variety for the southwest but it dies in the summer heat too easily.
you must understand, we have no watermass anywhere near us, no ocean, no lake, no river. therefore there is very little moisture in the air and the concept of "drought" is funny to us. We're a desert, there are no drought's because we have no years where rain is in abundace. We simply have our yearly monsoons where what little rain we get falls. The rest fo the year, it's dry.
