Well the good news is you should never, even in the hottest heat of summer, have to water more than once a week. This time of year you should be watering once a month. Get a couple of tuna or cat food cans and use them to time how long it takes you to put an inch of water on the grass. Mine takes 8 hours but some sprinkler systems will fill a can in 15 minutes. You need to know what it is for your system and water pressure. Start with that amount of water every time you use it. Then watch the grass and adjust the time (hopefully downward). As the summer comes on, you will be watering more frequently but should not get to the point where you are watering more frequently than every 7 days. Frequent watering is a recipe for weeds. Set your mower up high for deeper roots and much better drought resistance. Highest setting for fescue or a fescue mix with Kentucky bluegrass. If you had the elite KBG (you don't) then you could drop it to 3.5 inches. After your grass has been mowed for the second time, you can fertilize with a chemical fertilizer. If you want use an organic fertilizer like alfalfa pellets (aka rabbit food), you can do that any time at 20-30 pounds per 1,000 square feet. If you really want to pump up the organic matter, you can use the organic up to once a week without hurting anything and with a significant improvement in color and grass density. If you started that now you could stop in May and have a great looking lawn for the summer.

Thanks, Solstice98. Like I said, it only took me 30 minutes(LOL!). We've watched star-filled skies here since we were kids. I guess living in the country, away from city lights has it's advantages. I still know most of the constellations, and keep up with Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn. Uranus and Neptune can sometimes be seen. I bought an adaptor for my Canon A-1 so that it fit my spotting scope. 15-60X, anything stronger moves too much without a motor to follow the movement across the sky. Several galaxies can be seen, some with the naked eye, and there are still some comets visible now with scopes. There won't be another major meteor shower until the latter part of April. OK! I'll stop, but I could go on and on and... Kt

First of all, how is your soil? Good soil will automatically complement root growth and health, which it looks like your roots are a bit lacking in. I know how hard it is to get a good soil going, but you just have to keep trying. Don't be afraid to experiment. I would only give it a small amount of water when you put it back in a pot. Then give it some time to replenish fine roots. As for burying it, how was it before? From the picture, it seems that the pup was below the soil's surface. If so, just leave it that way. It will eventually break the surface.

Inconsistent watering and cold damage can cause this look. If the leaves now brown out from the edges inwards, the soil needs more water. use enough water to moisten the siil down to about 8” deep if you test several spots under the drip line. Aim to keep the top 4” or so evenly moist/damp always. If the problem was present at leaf out time, the cause was winter related. If the problem occured after all danger of frost had passed, it may be due to inconsistent watering that allowed the foliage to dry out. Note that some leaves appear chlorothic so check the soil pH and make sure that you are currently not overwatering.